1. The Slave Ship
We can also read Ralph Ellison's (Invisible Man, 1952) work. ... The phase of transition from Africa to America took place on the slave ship which had two important functions: the first was the "transmutation", which meant that the transportation of the bodies of Africans across the Atlantic Ocean transformed them into slaves and created a new kind of man: the African American. ... Their horror may be well conceived if we think that lots of that Negroes were found, at the end of their voyage, in different stages of suffocation; lots of them were foaming at the mouth and in their last ag...
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