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Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route PDF

209 Pages·2007·1.9 MB·English
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To Samuel and Kasia Contents List of Illustrations Prologue: The Path of Strangers One Afrotopia Two Markets and Martyrs Three The Family Romance Four Come, Go Back, Child Five The Tribe of the Middle Passage Six So Many Dungeons Seven The Dead Book Eight Lose Your Mother Nine The Dark Days Ten The Famished Road Eleven Blood Cowries Twelve Fugitive Dreams Notes Acknowledgments Acknowledgments Index

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In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman journeys along a slave route in Ghana, following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast. She retraces the history of the Atlantic slave trade from the fifteenth to the twentieth century and reckons with the blank slate of her own genealog
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