American Literature / Unit 5 AML 0420 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Middle Passage in Equiano's Telling
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The idea
Equiano describes the slave ship as a child who had never seen the sea: the stench below, the flogging of those refusing food, the men who leapt overboard, his conviction that he had fallen among spirits. The account became the standard description.
In practice
A child's first sight of a slave ship.
Where people slip
Written decades later, for a campaign.
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