The Middle Passage was the traveling (often on ships) that slaves had to endure during the 1700s. The triangular trade was a fairly new concept and form of a fair-trading system amongst the three largest continents on the globe: Africa, The New World, and England. Together the agreement allowed Africa to trade slaves for clothes, fur, copper, and beads with England. Next, England traded the slaves for goods discovered and made in the New World. Together, this agreement allowed each country to thrive economically and lay a foundation for future trades.
Initially, Equino explains the calming ocean that gives him peace. Next, he moves the reader over to the large ship that looked like hell on earth, his brief moment of serenity quickly “converted into terror” in…show more content… Generation after generation historical black figures have a narrative of their own published of their own personal slave experiences. Including Miss Jane Pittman, a fellow slave known as “Ticey” to her slave owners. United, slaves created a “slave culture” of slave narratives that included the most “extensive and influential traditions in African-American literature and culture.” Centuries passed with little progress to the slave community, in the 1800s Fredrick Douglas becomes an escaped slave whom “devoted his entire life to eradicating the slavery of blacks and extending the vote to both blacks and women” thorough his writing in the newspaper, becoming one of the first slaves to take the step towards freedom at the risk of his life. Followed by Arna Bontemps, a black writer that helped African Americans and whites learn about Afro Americans. “Bontemps publications in the middle third of this century formed the necessary foundation for the award-winning black children’s authors of the 1970’s and beyond.” Bontemps not only created the Harlem Renaissance, but the black culture of the
