Uncle Tom's Cabin

"the flat, bare, oozy tide-mud, when the blue sparkling wave, with all its company of gliding boats and white-winged ships, its music of oars and chiming waters, has gone down, and there it lies, flat, slimy, bare, – exceedingly real. "

In the excerpt above, the words "white-winged ships" can best be understood to represent _____.

happiness
sorrow
loss
travel
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