... themselves from slavery. It is evident that the most decisive delivery of the Afro-American slave into a labouring situation took place by water. Two other examples of this function of the sea are presented in the experiences of Equiano and Douglass. The voyage across the Atlantic eastward from Virginia to England for the first one, and the travel to Baltimore, for the second one, represented ... eat, nor had I the least desire to taste anything. I now wished for the last friend, Death, to relieve me. Soon, to my grief, two of the white men offered me eatables and on my refusing to eat,...

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