I've been thinking a lot about Saidiya Hartman's concept of 'the afterlife of slavery' in Lose Your Mother , specifically in a Canadian context. It's easy (well, you know what I mean) to think of Transatlantic chattel slavery in America - books are written recording its events and films are created depicting the middle passage, slave quarters, plantations, (in)human auctions, shackling, branding/whipping... The hereafter of slavery, as Hartman points out in the introduction of Lose Your Mother, is seen through contemporary forms of power abuse and violence enacted upon Black bodies, which is really the same narrative told in a different way: "skewed life chances, limited access to health and education, premature death, incarceration, and impoverishment" (Hartman 6) In American... We are made to not forget slavery. We are made to not forget that its effects live on presently. But what about Canada? What I'm realizing is that the thing...