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Lose your mother : a journey along the Atlantic slave route / Saidiya Hartman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008.Edition: 1st pbk. edDescription: xi, 270 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0374531153 (pbk.)
  • 9788189059392
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DT510.2 .H375 2008
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.
Summary: Traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey the author took along a slave route in Ghana, vividly dramatizing the effects of slavery on three centuries of African and African-American history.
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General Books General Books CUTN Central Library Social Sciences 306.36209667 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 4569

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-258) and index.

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.

Traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey the author took along a slave route in Ghana, vividly dramatizing the effects of slavery on three centuries of African and African-American history.

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