{"product_id":"lose-your-mother-a-journey-along-the-atlantic-slave-route-saidiya-hartman","title":"Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route;  Saidiya Hartman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLose Your Mother\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Saidiya Hartman journeys along a slave route in Ghana, following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast. She retraces the history of the Atlantic slave trade from the fifteenth to the twentieth century and reckons with the blank slate of her own genealogy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere were no survivors of Hartman's lineage, nor far-flung relatives in Ghana of whom she had come in search. She traveled to Ghana in search of strangers. The most universal definition of the slave is a stranger--torn from kin and country. To lose your mother is to suffer the loss of kin, to forget your past, and to inhabit the world as a stranger. As both the offspring of slaves and an American in Africa, Hartman, too, was a stranger. Her reflections on history and memory unfold as an intimate encounter with places--a holding cell, a slave market, a walled town built to repel slave raiders--and with people: an Akan prince who granted the Portuguese permission to build the first permanent trading fort in West Africa; an adolescent boy who was kidnapped while playing; a fourteen-year-old girl who was murdered aboard a slave ship.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEloquent, thoughtful, and deeply affecting, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLose Your Mother\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a powerful meditation on history, memory, and the Atlantic slave trade.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJanuary 9, 2007\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSaidiya Hartman is the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eScenes of Subjection\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. She a Guggenheim Fellow and has been a Cullman Fellow and Fulbright Scholar. She is a professor at Columbia University and lives in New York.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49414934069570,"sku":"","price":8.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/files\/losemother.jpg?v=1721680098","url":"https:\/\/shop.freeairbooks.com\/products\/lose-your-mother-a-journey-along-the-atlantic-slave-route-saidiya-hartman","provider":"FREEAIR Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}