... , 1789) In The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African the protagonist recounts the pain involved in entering this enormous ship, and how, gradually, the more the ship flew over the sea, more he lost the control of his knowledge, as if he were "In another world". Thoughts of his own death constantly occupied his mind, perpetuated by the abject fear and the sense of unreality he was feeling. In his analysis of a slave ... in Wynton Marsalis" Blood on the Fields, in which Leona, imprisoned within the ship, thinks she is hearing the beating of a dr...

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