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Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (20th Anniversary Edition)

By Saidiya Hartman, Dionne Brand (Introduction)
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By Saidiya Hartman, Dionne Brand (Introduction)
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An eloquent and original exploration of the Atlantic slave trade-now featuring the essay "Venus in Two Acts" and a new introduction by Dionne Brand.

A monumental work of first-person history, Lose Your Mother traces the legacy of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey Saidiya Hartman 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 the rippling effects of slavery o...

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