Black Renaissance, July 1st, 2001
The subterranean bough of a slave ship conjures visions of hell and of a womb. Mythologically and biologically, birth cannot be realized without death. Inside the slave ship all that are present must die to be reborn; the captain, crew and slave are captives of this process and none can escape. These nefarious slave ships were not only responsible for the shipping of distressed human cargo, creating new population configurations in the so-called "New World," but also for the transformation of the human spirit still in its infancy.
The Virginia politician George Mason, during the heat of the p...
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