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. "Voyage Through Death / To Life Upon these Shores" symbolizes the apex of the construction of the Middle Passage; this is an emphatic claim to life, signifying the arrival of a new people on the scene of the New World. ... This produced copious perspirations so that the air became unfit for respiration from a variety of loathsome sme...

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