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The Belly of the World: A Note on Black Women’s Labors

Saidiya Hartman

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The slave ship is a womb/abyss. The plantation is the belly of the world. Partus sequitur ventrem—the child follows the belly. The master dreams of future increase. The modern world follows the bel...

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synapsesocial.com/papers/69f4225ed241a6280ce258eb https://doi.org/10.1080/10999949.2016.1162596

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