Lose your mother, a journey along the Atlantic slave route, Saidiya Hartman
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Lose your mother, a journey along the Atlantic slave route, Saidiya Hartman
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Lose your mother
Medium
electronic resource /
Nature of contents
bibliography
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Saidiya Hartman
Sub title
a journey along the Atlantic slave route
Summary
The slave, Saidiya Hartman observes, is a stranger torn from family, home, and country. To lose your mother is to be severed from your kin, to forget your past, and to inhabit the world as an outsider. In Lose Your Mother, Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. There are no known survivors of Hartman's lineage, no relatives to find. She is a stranger in search of strangers, and this fact leads her into intimate engagements with the people she encounters along the way, and with figures from the past, vividly dramatising the effects of slavery on three centuries of African and American history
Target audience
specialized
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Subject
- Ethnic studies
- Relating to ethnic minorities & groups
- Society & culture: general
- Ghana -- History, Local
- Relating to African American people
- Historic sites -- Ghana
- History of the Americas
- Electronic books
- Society
- Ghana -- Description and travel
- United States of America, USA
- Hartman, Saidiya V. -- Travel -- Ghana
- Social & cultural history
- Slavery & abolition of slavery
- Family history, tracing ancestors
- Slave trade -- Ghana -- History
Author
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- Classification1
- Creator1
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- Subject16
- Ethnic studies
- Relating to ethnic minorities & groups
- Society & culture: general
- Ghana -- History, Local
- Relating to African American people
- Historic sites -- Ghana
- History of the Americas
- Electronic books
- Society
- Ghana -- Description and travel
- United States of America, USA
- Hartman, Saidiya V. -- Travel -- Ghana
- Social & cultural history
- Slavery & abolition of slavery
- Family history, tracing ancestors
- Slave trade -- Ghana -- History
- Author1