![]() ![]() I decided to invite others to collaborate and contribute to the text. I wanted to correct the errors in the first edition. However, once I re-entered the book, the plan for revision expanded. ![]() What was the impetus for a 25 th anniversary edition of this book? ![]() Hartman discusses the new edition with Columbia News, along with her thoughts on how the discourse about race has changed in this country, and the class she is co-teaching this semester. ![]() She examined the forms of terror and resistance that shaped Black identity, including forms of domination that usually go undetected, by looking at sources from the margins of the historical archive-slave narratives, plantation diaries, popular theater, slave performances, freedmen’s primers, and legal cases.Ī 25 th-anniversary edition of the book, revised and expanded, has just been published, so that a new generation of readers can discover how Hartman investigates the forms of routine terror and violence characteristic of slavery, that intertwining of injury, subjugation, and selfhood seen even in abolitionist depictions of enslavement. In 1997, University Professor Saidiya Hartman published her first book, Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America, in which she explored racial subjugation during slavery and its aftermath. ![]()
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