Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth- Century America.

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Journal Article Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America. By Saidiya V. Hartman. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. x, 281 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-19-508983-9. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-19-508984-7.) Get access Nell Irvin Painter Nell Irvin Painter Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998, Pages 680–681, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567814 Published: 01 September 1998