... Middle Passage and slavery! A group of German researchers have identified a gene, the thrifty gene, that may have been the reason African slaves were able to survive the Middle Passage. The thrifty gene, which helps the body to function ...
... Middle Passage and made Africans leading participants in the economic transformation of the New World. Nothing attests to this more forcefully than the commercial experiences of the first generation of African- Americans. Within a few ...
... Middle Passage, that is, with the passage of Africans being taken over. Now I depart from that in order to suggest that the Europeans had a middle passage, too, one that is now going to be seen on the interior of their lives. I think ...
... Middle Passage Roland Barker and William Doerflinger are co-authors of an absorbing new novel dealing with that era when the slave trade from Africa to the New World rose to flourishing proportions and windjamming square-riggers ...
... Middle Passage. It's as if you went back 300 years and got on a slave ship with a video camera. It's like a documentary. I decided I would write a book about slavery that would be available to children and adults. You know from the ...
... Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo (Dial Books, $40 until March THE MIDDLE PASSAGE TOM F E E L I N G S 1996; $45). Feelings also recounts the 20-year journey toward the completion of the 64 original paintings. Anita Hill speaks out ...
... Middle Passage. Skin friction is fundamentally shearing action between adjacent layers of fluid, the shearing force being proportional to the viscosity of the fluid and the speed of shearing. The layer of water next to the planking ...
... Middle Passage Voyage, wherein he'll be commanding an 80-foot ketch, Middle Passage, on a tour of Africa and the New World along the old slave-trade routes. Once again, his goal is to make the trip an interactive learning experience for ...
... Middle Passage, the long, forced journey from Africa into slavery in the Americas. Visitors enter a replica of a slave ship's holding area, and a three-minute audio-visual presentation describes the horrible conditions that Africans ...
... Middle Passage, earned him the 1990 National Book Award. He is the first Black to win the award since Ralph Ellison. He has also written over 20 screenplays and 47 reviews. Including this year's group, a total of 531 fellows have been ...