Voiceless Subalterns

Abstract

Abstract This short chapter considers those voices missing from the book, usually the subaltern voices of the weak. What we know about resistance derives, in the main, from the extant records of those subaltern groups that either succeeded or left accounts of their resistance. But by and large history is written by the victors and most definitely is not written by the huge mass of people who either lived or died at the hands of their oppressors, and sometimes those resisting them. It starts with a personal acknowledgement to those silenced by my own historical narrative and procedures to illustrate the wider point through a brief review of similar acts of silencing.