Saidiya Hartman, who grew up in Brooklyn, holds degrees from Wesleyan and Yale and is on the faculty at Columbia University. She is the author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval; Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America;, and Lose Your Mother: A Journey along the Atlantic Slave Route, an excerpt of which won the 2007 Narrative Prize. She live in New York.
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