Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route can't trace who it is

can't trace who it is or how this person could have access to intimate information

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hopeful solutions to a crisis that has left an entire generation behind

left behind nearly a million words of text

who too long for freedom

Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route can't trace who it isIn Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. Following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast, she reckons with the blank slate of her own genealogy and vividly dramatizes the effects of slavery on three centuries of African and African American history. The slave, Hartman observes, is a strangertorn from family, home, and