Scenes of subjection : terror, slavery, and self-making in nineteenth-century America /

The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated. Saidiya Hartman has been praised as "one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers" (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and "a lodestar for a generation of s...

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Main Author:	Hartman, Saidiya V. (Author)
Other Authors:	Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta (writer of foreword.), Fuentes, Marisa J. (writer of afterword.), Haley, Sarah (writer of afterword.), Rowland, Cameron, 1988- (writer of notations.)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2022].
Edition:	25th anniversary edition /
Subjects:	Slaves > United States > Social conditions. Slaves > United States > Social life and customs. Slavery > United States > Psychological aspects. African Americans > History > To 1863. Power (Social sciences) > United States > History > 19th century. Self > History > 19th century.

by Hartman, Saidiya V.
Published 1997

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