Download or read book Silencing the Past written by Michel-Rolph Trouillot and published by Beacon Press (MA). This book was released on 1995 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative analysis of historical narrative, Michel-Rolph Trouillot demonstrates how power operates, often invisibly, at all stages in the making of history to silence certain voices. From the West's failure to acknowledge the Haitian Revolution, the most successful slave revolt in history, to the continued debate over denials of the Holocaust, and the meaning of Columbus's arrival in the Americas, Trouillot shows us that history is not simply the recording of facts and events, but a process of actively enforced silences, some unconscious, others quite deliberate.