storytelling-as-empathy

This chapter recounts the harrowing journey of Wututu and Agasu, African twins sold into slavery and transported across the ocean on a slave ship. It explores the brutal realities of the slave trade, the dehumanization of individuals reduced to commodities, and the emotional and physical suffering endured during the Middle Passage. The narrative also reflects on the nature of storytelling, individual suffering versus collective tragedy, and the preservation of cultural memory through oral tradition.