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Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

by Saidiya Hartman,

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Curator Reviews

Maggie Nelson

Hartman eschews a focus on the more well-known, violent scenes of American racial subjugation to focus on the terrors and inequities that structured (and still structure) the slavery-to-emancipation period and narrative. A critical book for anyone aiming to understand how unfreedom masquerades as freedom.

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