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I read an article yesterday that brought up repatriation. The issue it presented was regarding human remains of enslaved peoples. Written for the New York Times, “What Should Museums Do With the Bones of the Enslaved?” discusses how many prominent museums, including the Smithsonian, the Peabody Essex Museum at Harvard University, and University of Pennsylvania’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, still have large collections of remains. Not only is this incredibly disres