"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. I mention about new people because, as we will see, the crossing of the ocean is the opportunity to transform in something different, something "new". ... The second function of the slave ship was to build a new community after the dispersal of the previous one. ... The space was so low that they sat between each other's legs and were stowed so close together that ther...

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