Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments | Saidiya Hartman

Balancing between scholarship and poetic imagination, Wayward Lives looks at the first generation of black woman born after emancipation who are trying to find their way at the beginning of the twentieth century. Little personal history has remained, as most documents about these women are written by white people with the lens of sociological research into the ‘ghettos’. Saidiya Hartman fills in the gaps illustrated by beautiful black and white photographs of another time.  

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