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1: “a scene of injury” (Best, 21); 2: “movements of the forensic imagination” (Best, 21); 3: “what can or cannot be held, has or has not been retrieved” (Best, 21); 4: used “to reclaim the dead, that is, to reckon with the lives undone and obliterated in the making of human commodities” (Hartman, 6); 5: “the manifests of slavers; ledger books of trade goods; inventories of foodstuffs; bills of sale; itemized lists of bodies, alive, infirm, and dead; captains’ logs; planters’ diaries” (Hartman, 17); 6: an “account of commercial transactions” (Hartman, 17); 7: “the traces of the destroyed” (Hartman, 17)

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