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Oblivion or Disclosure, What Naming Informers Can and Cannot Heal
When a regime of secret denunciation falls, should its files be closed or opened? From Domitian's Rome to revolutionary France, the texts suggest that naming informers repairs only when it also judges the system that recruited and paid them.
The Abolitionist Nation, How Britain Turned the End of Slavery into a Story of Its Own Virtue
In the 19th century Britain told the end of slavery as a national penance: twenty million pounds paid, a sin washed away. The money went to slaveholders, apprenticeship kept the freed at work unpaid, and the story of virtue passed over both.
