Sentences with phrase «passage of slave ships»

As a group, these paintings evoke the Middle Passage of slave ships between West Africa and North America, and the themes of immigration, class mobility, and aspiration central to American life.

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The specific focus is religious practices and Christian engagement during the «Middle Passage,» the horrific middle leg of the slave triangle when Africans were tightly packed in slave ships and shipped to the Americas.

By layering carefully selected clues - a gold button, an African mask, a slave ship diagram, a weathered photograph, a pressed leaf, a tattered American flag - she constructs fictional biographies of nameless characters that represent the historical passages of millions.

Hank talked about the Middle Passage, when slave traders kidnapped millions of people of diverse cultures, languages and identities, packed them tightly into ships, sent them halfway around the world and put them in the same category as a people.