
MacArthur Fellows Program
Saidiya Hartman
Literary Scholar and Cultural Historian | Class of 2019
Tracing the afterlife of slavery in modern American life and rescuing from oblivion stories of sparsely documented lives that have been systematically excluded from historical archives.
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