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    The main problem with this memorialization of slavery is its overwhelming erasure of any racialized sense of historical formation or degrading social process. Erased is the expansive, repetitive nature of enslavement, including the plantation work systems across the Americas and the centuries-long development of highly organized and systematic economic and racialized forms of governmentality. In the absence of these social encrustations being made explicit or explained, we are positioned to remember slavery as pathological ephemera, as if historically it was a minor crimogenic deviation from a progressive modernizing project. Remembering slavery through this cultural route becomes a reflexive excursion in the rehabilitation of the American dream, the restoration of reverence for the history that produced the Declaration of Independence, the Emancipation Proclamation, and civil rights legislation. A history, the normative memory of which remembers slavery, together with the constitutive and ensuing contexts of racism, as exceptions to the democratic longevity of civil rule within the Republic. In other words, the memory of slavery is established as the memory of its heroic and inevitable absence.
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    Barnor Hesse, Forgotten Like a Bad Dream: Atlantic Slavery and the Ethics of Postcolonial Memory

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