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Rachel Garfield breaks new ground in exploring the rebellious
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Work on the exhibition started in January 1966 and it opened in August 1968
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Saidiya Hartman: Lose Your Mother Sports Banger Victoria & Albert MuseumSerpent's Tail, 2021, softcover, 288 pages, 12. 8 x 19. 8 The slave, Saidiya Hartman observes, is a stranger torn from family, home, and country. To lose your mother is to be severed from your kin, to forget your past, and to inhabit the world as an outsider. In Lose Your Mother, Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. There are no known survivors of Hartman's lineage, no