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Hartman, Saidiya. Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route.(Smallwood, Stephanie E. Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora.)(Book review)

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Hartman, Saidiya. Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route. Farrar. Jan. 2007. c.256p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-374-27082-1 [ISBN 978-0-374-27082-7]. $24.

Smallwood, Stephanie E. Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora. Harvard Univ. Feb. 2007. c.288p. illus. maps. index. ISBN 0-674-02349-8 [ISBN 978-0-674-02349-9]. $29.95. HIST

These two books on the slave trade, particularly the Middle Passage, reach beyond the bounds of traditional historical writing to great effect. Hartman (English, Univ. of California, Berkeley; Scenes of Subjection) is one of the first scholars to examine critically today's African …

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