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dlr-2601	Wolfe, Esther	Speaking the Lacuna: The Archaeology of Plantation Slavery as Testimony	2015	12	.pdf	application/pdf	6830	281	37	By referencing “a missing portion in a man- uscript,” alongside “an unfilled space or gap” and “a cavity or depression, especially in bone,” the Speaking the Lacuna: The Archaeology of Plantation Slavery as Testimony Esther Wolfe, Ball State University Key Words: Slavery, archaeology, forensics, anthropology, trauma studies, Shoshana Felman, Giorgio Agamben, Eyal Weizman Abstract: This paper examines plantation archaeology as a form of material testimony and bearing witness to the historical trauma of slavery. In the act of carving the “careful words” into the wall, Florens’s witness and literary testi- mony also becomes material testimony.	cache/dlr-2601.pdf	txt/dlr-2601.txt