WAYWARD LIVES, BEAUTIFUL EXPERIMENTS/

In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphi a and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, cohabitati on outside of wedlock, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes that altered the character of everyday life and challenged traditional Victorian beliefs about courtship, love, and marriage. Hartman narrates the story of this radical s ocial tr...[Read more]