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Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route Babysitting Pablo Vierci-a close acquaintance ofIn Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. Following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast, she reckons with the blank slate of her own genealogy and vividly dramatizes the effects of slavery on three centuries of African and African American history. The slave, Hartman observes, is a stranger torn from family, home, and