... PASSAGE Middle Passage from a transatlantic imagination experience to a microcosm of Atlantic history The element of the Atlantic has been the object of different and conflicting interpretations. For example, Henry David Thoreau in his essay Walking viewed the gap between Europe and America as a sea of oblivion. The Atlantic was compared to the Lethean Stream which gave the opportunity to forget the ... to their fear. But, on the other hand, it was also a source of astonishment for the slaves coming from the inner areas of Africa who had never seen the Ocean. RESISTANCE IN SLAVE SHIPS "...

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