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A to Z of Anansi the spider.
O is for Ocean
Rivers seem to be mentioned more often than the ocean in the Anansi stories. There are fish stories, one of which is included in my book, Anansi and Company, but the ocean itself, doesn't seem to play any roles.
I could hazard a guess as to why. As beautiful as the ocean can be, it was a constant reminder to the slaves of the horrors of the Middle Passage. It was a barrier, both physical and psychological, which they could not get across.
This is only my thoughts on it. I could be wrong. But when something so obvious is rarely mentioned, one wonders why.
O is for Ocean
Rivers seem to be mentioned more often than the ocean in the Anansi stories. There are fish stories, one of which is included in my book, Anansi and Company, but the ocean itself, doesn't seem to play any roles.
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| Sir Francis Drake Passage, named after him because he sailed right through here. St. John, U. S. Virgin Island is on the right. Tortola, British VirginIsland is on the left. In the distant center in Virgin Gorda, BVI. Before they won their freedom from Denmark in 1848, many slaves on St. John swam or smuggled themselves across The Passage to Tortola where slavery had been abolished in 1833. |
I could hazard a guess as to why. As beautiful as the ocean can be, it was a constant reminder to the slaves of the horrors of the Middle Passage. It was a barrier, both physical and psychological, which they could not get across.
This is only my thoughts on it. I could be wrong. But when something so obvious is rarely mentioned, one wonders why.
