2022/04/30 by KOUMA, Yao Katamatou
#FOS: Languages and literature
paper · doi:10.48734/akofena.s8v1.20.2022
Abstract: The Middle Passage has been interpreted by several playwrights as a route invented by slave trade. It is a commercial journey employed by the greatest forced and humiliating migration in humanity. However, in his play, August Wilson (2006) gives another version through a metaphoric description of the city of bones on an imaginative map of the ocean. The objective of this article is to show how slavery is an esoteric pilgrimage to a transitory death, but also, to resurrection. In light of esoteric psychological theory by Alice Anna Bailey, this article figures out that slavery through mnemonic voyage becomes a psychological medication and a source of motivation to black freedom.