Diaspora Dialogs [.com]

"If history is merely the story told by those who won, how did they win in the first place?" (Trouillot 6)

Who is to say that history is told by winners alone?  We read, hear and see on countless occasions the stories and history of the people who have lost.  Diaspora is the strongest example of this exception.  The incredible suffering and death experienced by the African people on the Middle Passage and on plantations in New World may encourage some to label African Americans (or blacks) as "losers."  As is the case with the survivors of other disasters - the Jewish Diaspora, the terrorist attack on 9/11, Hiroshima, Hurricane Katrina, the tsunami - all marked with vast pain and suffering.  However, these horrible events are already in our history, and the narratives of their various witnesses are told or being told despite the incredible loses.  Can it be that the winners may not be those who won a war, wrote the textbooks or worked in academia - but rather suffered the most?