Well it does have to do with slaves, but i'm almost positive that it dosn't ever take place on a slave ship; the story that is. The line about the ship is describing the barn, the barn appears like the hull of a capsized slave ship. And the final lines of the song are about taking a raft down the mississippi and ohio rivers. I get the suspicion that the main character like Yaqqai said is hiding a secret. And he is using a slave as a spy or henchman to do his bidding, or to find out whats going on. There is some tretchory afoot, but i'm not sure who is causing it. The narrator, or the "they" brought up in the interagation between the narator and his slave.
Well it does have to do with slaves, but i'm almost positive that it dosn't ever take place on a slave ship; the story that is. The line about the ship is describing the barn, the barn appears like the hull of a capsized slave ship. And the final lines of the song are about taking a raft down the mississippi and ohio rivers. I get the suspicion that the main character like Yaqqai said is hiding a secret. And he is using a slave as a spy or henchman to do his bidding, or to find out whats going on. There is some tretchory afoot, but i'm not sure who is causing it. The narrator, or the "they" brought up in the interagation between the narator and his slave.