Saidiya Hartman

The book: Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval (1997)

At the dawn of the twentieth century, black women in the US were carving out new ways of living. The first generations born after emancipation, their struggle was to live as if they really were free. These women refused to labour like slaves. Wrestling with the question of freedom, they invented forms of love and solidarity outside convention and law.

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Saidiya Hartman is best known for Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval, published in 1997 with 6 ratings and a 4.7 average. It is the most-rated of Saidiya Hartman's books on SansFiction.

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