Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route by Saidiya Hartman

Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route

Saidiya Hartman

288 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir race challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

Description

In Lose Your Mother, 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...

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Moods

informative 93%
challenging 66%
reflective 60%
emotional 56%
sad 43%
dark 33%
tense 10%
hopeful 6%
adventurous 3%

Pace

medium 64%
slow 35%

Average rating

4.25

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