{"id":993,"date":"2019-06-29T04:44:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T04:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wcsu.wpengine.com\/honors\/?p=993"},"modified":"2022-07-11T17:32:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T17:32:07","slug":"hon-398-crossing-the-danger-water-dr-donald-gagnon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/2019\/06\/29\/hon-398-crossing-the-danger-water-dr-donald-gagnon\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossing the Danger Water"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The slave trade between Africa and the Americas marked the Atlantic Ocean as the site of what Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and others have called \u201cthe largest unmarked graveyard in the world.\u201d\u00a0 Whether referred to as \u201cThe Danger Water,\u201d \u201cThe Middle Passage\u201d or \u201cThe City of Bones,\u201d among other designations, the Atlantic serves as an unmarked gravesite for more than a million Africans who died of either physical trauma and deprivation or intentional self-sacrifice.\u00a0 As such, it has since become a fertile ground for African American literature in its task of reviving the ancestors' spiritual power to enrich the lives of their descendants.\u00a0 In particular, African American writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have consecrated the experience of the Middle Passage as a sacred one and its Atlantic geography as a sacred site.\u00a0 It is marked by monuments and literary tributes to its spiritual value in acknowledging the value of the lives lost in an attempt to restore visibility and, therefore, power to the souls lost along the journey.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The slave trade between Africa and the Americas marked the Atlantic Ocean as the site of what Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and others have called \u201cthe largest unmarked graveyard in the world.\u201d\u00a0 Whether referred to as \u201cThe Danger Water,\u201d \u201cThe …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}