LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
SLAVERY IN AMERICA COTTON SLAVE TRADE AND THE SOUTHERN RESPONSE
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Triangular trade
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Middle Passage
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Detailed explanation-1: -Middle Passage, the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The Middle Passage The ‘Middle Passage’ was the harrowing voyage experienced by the millions of African captives transported across the Atlantic in European ships, to work as slaves in the Americas.
Detailed explanation-4: -The selling of enslaved Africans crossed the Sahara Desert, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, marking the very beginning routes of the Middle Passage. 12 The infamous “Middle Passage” spanned across the Atlantic and into the New World, usually lasting more than seven weeks.
Detailed explanation-5: -In African ports, European traders exchanged metals, cloth, beads, guns, and ammunition for captive Africans brought to the coast from the African interior, primarily by African traders. Many captives died just during the long overland journeys from the interior to the coast.