{"title":"The Slave Trade: View from the Middle Passage","authors":"Kia Corthron","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0037","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"I am Mfu, not a bit romantic, a water spirit,\n a voice from deep in the Atlantic:\n Mfu jumped ship, made his escape, to find relief\n from his grief on the way,\n long ago, to Brazil or Georgia or Carolina—\n he doesn’t know which;\n but this is real, not a sentimental...","PeriodicalId":145201,"journal":{"name":"The Essential Clarence Major","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Essential Clarence Major","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0037","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
I am Mfu, not a bit romantic, a water spirit,
a voice from deep in the Atlantic:
Mfu jumped ship, made his escape, to find relief
from his grief on the way,
long ago, to Brazil or Georgia or Carolina—
he doesn’t know which;
but this is real, not a sentimental...