Word: atlanticism
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Flying from the United States to West Africa and back is surprisingly easy if you’re lucky enough to have the money to do it. Boarding a plane in Accra, Ghana and touching ground in New York City a mere 11 hours later is an incredible feat considering...
The aborted idea of slavery being born of a ship crossing the Atlantic is wrong. West Africa was the home of a thriving internal slave trade since at least the 15th century. During this era of Atlantic trade, Europeans rarely ventured inland and instead relied on Africans to supply them...
The act of an Atlantic crossing today resonates because of the modern voyage’s juxtaposition with the most famous Atlantic passage: the voyage of African slaves to the “New World.” That trip was a spiritual, emotional, and physical death for many of...
"Host" The Atlantic April 2005
His was not a cheery worldview, but it was honest. He ate meat but realized, in his essay "Consider the Lobster," that if a crustacean is trying to claw its way out of a pot of boiling water, you are cold-blooded murderer when you eat it. In the 150th...