... 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 the passage to more agreeable conditions ... of life. Frederick Douglass lived a remarkable life. Born in 1818 on Maryland's Eastern Shore, his mother was a slave, his father an unknown white man. Eventually he was sent to Baltimore where he worked as ... wa...

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... a life of earthly freedom but spiritual death (Mintz 3). His biography seemed to have a profound affect on its readers. According to Nash, "It has been said no black voice before Frederick Douglass in his Narrative of 1845 spoke so movingly to American readers about inhumanity-(165). In its introduction, Equiano states that the main purpose of the book is to "excite in ... ...

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