They were captured from the tribes situated on Africa’s West Coast: Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Congo, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Senegal, etc. and they were shipped in the southern area of North America (Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida).

The Diaspora gives birth to a new human being: the African American, who links together the African and the American culture.

The crossing of the Atlantic Ocean is a very important phase of the Middle Passage. 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. I mention about new people becau

“Though I was not a murderer fleeing from justice, I felt perhaps quite as miserable as such a criminal. The train was moving at a very high rate of speed for that epoch of railroad travel, but to my anxious mind it was moving far too slowly. Minutes were hours, and hours were days during this part of my flight”

Thus every great event, such as a triumphant return from battle, a wedding, or other cause for public rejoicing, was celebrated in public dances, which were accompanied with songs and music suited to the occasion. This sense of solidarity was re-established on the slave ship.

“We are almost a nation of dancers, musicians and poets”

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