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The Middle Passage, in other words, was sometimes a two-way street.
On the book's last pages, Florens's mother somehow returns, as a disembodied voice, and recounts her enslavement in Africa ("The men guarding we and selling we are black"), the middle passage in "a house made to float on the sea," her arrival in the hot sun and cane fields of Barbados, and her "breaking in" — her rape — by white men who apologize and give her an orange as consolation.
On the book's last pages, Florens's mother somehow returns, as a disembodied voice, and recounts her enslavement in Africa ("The men guarding we and selling we are black"), the middle passage in "a house made to float on the sea," her arrival in the hot sun and cane fields of Barbados, and her "breaking in"—her rape by white men who apologize and give her an orange as consolation.
Open image in new window Fig. 41 Middle passage in support.
Open image in new window Fig. 41 Middle passage in support Under the ground pressure, the top coal is fractured and caved.
She puts The Middle Passage in your face.
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