The silencing of the Haitian Revolution is only a chapter within a narrative of global domination. It is part of the history of the West and it is li…

- Michel-Rolph Trouillot

But we may want to keep in mind that deeds and words are not as distinguishable as often we presume. History does not belong only to its narrators, p…

- Michel-Rolph Trouillot

But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to somethin…

- Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Silences enter the process of historical production at four crucial moments: the moment of fact creation (the making of sources); the moment of fact …

- Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Any historical narrative is a bundle of silences.

- Michel-Rolph Trouillot

History is the fruit of power, but power itself is never so transparent that its analysis becomes superfluous. The ultimate mark of power may be its …

- Michel-Rolph Trouillot