The book concludes with the largest implications for the Charleston slave workhouse rebellion. It relies on the work of historian Michel-Rolph Trouillot to explain why the revolt has been silenced for more than 171 years. Trouillot determined that silences occur at four important moments in the process of historical production: fact creation (the making of sources), fact assembly (the making of archives); fact retrieval (the making of narratives); and retrospective significance (the making of history in the final instance). The newspapers downplayed the incident (the making of sources). The historical archives have not been concerned with collecting material on the revolt because they remained unaware of its occurrence (making of archive). The few historians that have written about the incident have misunderstood the incident. Francis Colburn Adams wrote a slave narrative about Nicholas and his half-sister that includes a depiction of the workhouse revolt. Yet nobody has made that connection until now.