Last Tuesday I visited the exhibition here hosted Betrayal & Vengeance: The Slaves' Conspiracy of 1749, which has received vast publicity all over the island: I am frankly shocked by the poorness and partiality of the communication which led to a horrific justification of slavism and revendication as a key part of Maltese history. The exhibition is based only on the perspective of the authorities of the 18th century Order of Knights of Malta who led the investigations and it presents this point of view as objective and as the only one having validity: this partiality and lack of critics of documentation is not anymore acceptable in contemporary historical science. A serious historian has the duty to contextualise the documents, which means mainly to highlight where there are lackness or partialities: on the contrary, the curator extrapolated parts of letters and presented them in some cases with a pejorative translation (the n word is used) as objective and plain documents of the facts. The video, which was a grotesque diorama made with the watercolours exposed, did not contribute to the contextualisation of facts, on the contrary it dramatised the facts as they were presented by the inquisitors, in this way evaluating a narration which today can be used to reinforce racial and religious stereotypes. In the narration the curators favour the use of the racist nicknames, rendering these people the caricatures the Inquisitors wanted them to be, depriving them in this way of any dignity, diminishing the agency they obviously had and endorsing a colonial and racist vision. I won't even mention the tactless attempt to merchandize this tragic event with misplaced irony. The authorities of Malta who hosted and promoted this exhibition should be ashamed of themselves.