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- On the coast of Western Africa, Europeans traded manufactured good for captive African people. They then set sail for Caribbean and the Americas. This journey across the Atlantic was called the Middle Passage.
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The Middle Passage was the leg of the Triangular Trade that transported captive African people from the West Coast of Africa to the Caribbean and Americas.
Sep 14, 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 [2] were transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade.
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
The Middle Passage was the crossing from Africa to the Americas, which the ships made carrying their ‘cargo’ of slaves. It was so-called because it was the middle section of the trade route taken by many of the ships. The first section (the ‘Outward Passage’ ) was from Europe to Africa.
Then we were transported thousands of miles across the Atlantic Ocean. They called it the Middle Passage and it took many weeks. The men were locked below deck, chained and shackled.
Sep 14, 2024 · The Atlantic passage, or Middle Passage, usually to Brazil or an island in the Caribbean, was notorious for its brutality and for the overcrowded unsanitary conditions on slave ships, in which hundreds of Africans were packed tightly into tiers below decks for a voyage of about 5,000 miles (8,000 km) that could last from a few weeks to several ...
