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Journal Article
Mathematics Black Life
2014
Overview
In Saidya Hartman's \"Venus in Two Acts,\" she returns to the deaths of two young African girls who were both violently and brutally killed on the middle passage. Raped, strung up, whipped to death, dying alone This is the information Hartman pieces together from the ship's ledger and financial accounts, the captain's log book, and the court case that dismissed the charges of murder against Captain John Timber, the man who caused the deaths of the girls. The archive of black diaspora is, as Hartman rightly suggests, \"a death sentence, a tomb, a display of a violated body, an inventory of property, a medical treatise, an asterisk in the grand narrative of history.\" Here, McKittrick discusses the archives of black slavery
