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May 9, 2024 · Middle Passage, the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World. It was one leg of the triangular trade route that took goods from Europe to Africa, Africans to work as slaves in the Americas and the West Indies, and items produced on the plantations back to Europe.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Middle Passage was the stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans were transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade. Ships departed Europe for African markets with manufactured goods (first side of the triangle), which were then traded for slaves with rulers of African states and other ...
Feb 5, 2024 · The Middle Passage was a frightening and dehumanizing voyage that was part of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Triangular Trade System. It referred to the perilous journey that African captives endured, crossing over the Atlantic Ocean from West Africa to the Americas.
- Randal Rust
Historians estimate that approximately 472,000 Africans were kidnapped and brought to the North American mainland between 1619 and 1860. Of these, nearly 18 percent died during the transatlantic voyage from Africa to the New World. Known as the "middle passage," this sea voyage could range from one to six months, depending on the weather.
Mar 3, 2024 · In The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife (public library), Jungian analyst James Hollis offers a torch for turning the perilous darkness of the middle into a pyre of profound transformation — an opportunity, both beautiful and terrifying, to reimagine the patterns of thought, feeling, and behavior acquired in the course of ...
The middle passage of the Atlantic Slave Trade carried recently-enslaved men, women, and children from the west coast of Africa to the colonies in the Americas. Records indicate that over two million people were forcibly transported across the Atlantic between 1500 and 1700.
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Mar 8, 2017 · Honoring the dead is precisely where Sowande’ Mustakeem enters the historiography on Africans and the Middle Passage. With few exceptions, the history of the Middle Passage is told through a quantitative lens: How many people were shipped? How many arrived? How many were lost at sea?
