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

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 dramatiz...

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Main Author: Hartman, Saidiya V.
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Hartman, Saidiya V. > Travel > Ghana.
Slave trade > Ghana > History.
Historic sites > Ghana.
Ghana > Description and travel.
Ghana > History, Local.
Physical Description:xi, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Prologue: The Path of Strangers
  • 1 Afrotopia
  • 2 Markets and Martyrs
  • 3 The Family Romance
  • 4 Come, Go Back, Child
  • 5 The Tribe of the Middle Passage
  • 6 So Many Dungeons
  • 7 The Dead Book
  • 8 Lose Your Mother
  • 9 The Dark Days
  • 10 The Famished Road
  • 11 Blood Cowries
  • 12 Fugitive Dreams.