Eons ago when our ancestors lived, in certain cultures there was a belief in one or more gods who governed the seas, land, air, the crops, and even a god of fertility. ... They could have made their way, into parts of Europe or even the Caribbean and had gained some sort of knowledge about the christian religion(insert) thornton makes reference to the priests who came over on the slave ships (insertpg264) nad stayed at the coast until the slaves were actually on the ships. ... Thornton express knowledge of the afro - american culture using the Santeria of Cuba, Cuba is a s...

• Word Count: 1957
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

He went from Africa, to the Caribbean, to the Americas, to the West Indies, and also spent a great deal of his time out at sea. ... The book editor Robert Alison commented that, "His years of slavery in the West Indies and life as a free man in Europe and at sea had given him a dual identity and made him recognize that though he was culturally an Englishman, he had become a son of Africa" (Alison 4). ... After being at sea for about three years, Equiano comments that, "From the various scenes I had beheld on shipboard, I soon grew a stranger to terror of every kind, and was, in that respec...

• Word Count: 1232
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

His schooling was interrupted by different times he was at sea. ... He took what were seemingly a couple of very pleasant cruises around the Mediterranean, and then a voyage back to the Caribbean, before in 1773 joining a voyage of exploration. ...

• Word Count: 944
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

It includes a vast number of aspects and elements: the slave ship, the sense of community, the function of the sea, the horrible treatment and condition of life in the slave ship, moral and physical suffering, darkness and the violence towards the women slaves. ... There are also various critical comments, for example Gilroy who speaks about Turner's painting of 1840 called Slaves Throwing Overboard the Death and Dying: Typhoon Coming on, better known as The Slave Ship, or John Ruskin, an art critic who explores the nature of the sea and its meaning. ... This produced copious per...

• Word Count: 4160
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

A trip from Africa to Brazil took a month and two months from the coast of West Africa to the Caribbean and North America. ... It is not known exactly how many Africans died at sea during the Middle Passage while estimations vary from 25 to 50 million. ...

• Word Count: 2584
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School