Reflect on your experience encountering this piece of art

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Question: "If the Atlantic were to dry up, it would reveal a scattered pathway of human bones, African bones marking the various routes of the Middle Passage."

The Middle Passage is the name given to the dangerous sea leg of the slave trade, across the Atlantic Ocean from the west coast of Africa to North and South America and the Caribbean. It is also the subject of this astonishing suite of 52 black-and-white drawings by the African-American artist Tom Feelings. The drawings took Mr. Feelings, a Brooklyn native, more than 20 years to complete. This video includes many of Feelings' illustrations set to music. The drawings aim to capture the reader into the suffering and desperation of the slaves. The first drawings in Feelings' wordless story are peaceful and show the pride of Africans in their homeland. But the scenes quickly turn to attacks on villages and long lines of Africans roped together and being led to the ships. In its abstract and monochromatic drawings, "The Middle Passage" includes violent concepts, including whippings and rapes.

Choose one image* from The Middle Passage and reflect on your experience encountering this piece of art. What emotions does this image convey? How does this art differ from the artwork produced by other African artists?

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