GK
WORLD HISTORY
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Question
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The Middle Passage
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Triangular Trade
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The Second Route
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The Door of No Return
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Detailed explanation-1: -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 .
Detailed explanation-2: -Historians estimate that about one million enslaved people were sold and moved around the country between 1808 and the abolition of slavery in 1865. This internal movement of enslaved people is called the Second Middle Passage.
Detailed explanation-3: -Upon landing on Africa’s “slave coast, ‘’ the cargo was exchanged for Africans. Fully loaded with its human cargo, the ship set sail for the Americas, where the slaves were exchanged for sugar, tobacco, or some other product. The final leg brought the ship back to Europe.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Middle Passage is the series of forced voyages made by enslaved Africans from Africa to the Americas over an approximately 350-year period.