![]() ![]() In her latest book, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval, professor and 2019 MacArthur Fellow, Saidiya Hartman, explores the untold stories of young Black women who migrated to New York and Philadelphia from the southern United States shortly after emancipation. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya Hartman | Nonfiction | Serpent’s Tail | 416 pages | review by Jenn Augustine Her way of living was nothing short of anarchy.” ![]() To wander through the streets of Harlem, to want better than what she had, and to be propelled by her whims and desires was to be ungovernable. She knew first-hand that the offense most punished by the state was trying to live free. ![]()
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