Lose Your Mother

Travel along the slave route in Ghana and learn about the history of the Atlantic slave trade with Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother. Hartman reflects on the effects of slavery on African and African American history, and explores the idea that to lose your mother is to be severed from kin and forgotten history. With no known surviving relatives in Ghana, Hartman becomes an outsider searching for strangers and engaging with people along the way. Lose Your Mother is a powerful and deeply affecting exploration of the past.