THE MIDDLE PASSAGE IN FICTION
Films about Slavery and the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Memories of the Middle Passage
| . . . the
millions . . . damaged by history.
The voices . . . are those of contemporary Africans and African-Americans, descendants of generations which have passed on, generations of African-born men, women and children who were enslaved on African soil and transported across the Atlantic and of their oppressors, both European and African. Few of the enslaved were able to leave written memoirs describing their experience. The rules which govern the practice of their discipline make it difficult, if not impossible, for historians to tell us how they felt. Unless, of course, they were to venture into the field of historical fiction.Ali A. Mazrui |