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Lose your mother : a journey along the Atlantic slave route

Title
Lose your mother : a journey along the Atlantic slave route / Saidiya Hartman.
Author
Hartman, Saidiya V.
Publication
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
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xi, 270 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"In 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, Hartman 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 stranger, one 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, an alien. There are no known survivors of Hartman's lineage, no relatives in Ghana whom she came hoping 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 draws her deeper into the heartland of slavery. She passes through the holding cells of military forts and castles, the ruins of towns and villages devastated by the trade, and the fortified settlements built to repel predatory armies and kidnappers. In artful passages of historical portraiture, she shows us an Akan prince who granted the Portuguese permission to build the first permanent trading fort in West Africa, a girl murdered aboard a slave ship, and a community of fugitives seeking a haven from slave raiders"--Jacket.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • History.
  • Local history.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-258) and index.
Contents
Prologue: The path of strangers -- Afrotopia -- Markets and martyrs -- The family romance -- Come, go back, child -- The tribe of the middle passage -- So many dungeons -- The dead book -- Lose your mother -- The dark days -- The famished road -- Blood cowries -- Fugitive dreams.
Call Number
Sc E 07-202
ISBN
  • 0374270821
  • 9780374270827
LCCN
  • 2006029407
  • 9780374270827
OCLC
71312800
Author
Hartman, Saidiya V.
Title
Lose your mother : a journey along the Atlantic slave route / Saidiya Hartman.
Imprint
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
Edition
1st ed.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-258) and index.
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Publisher description
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9780374270827
Research Call Number
Sc E 07-202
JFE 07-1635
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