USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Middle Passage, the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World.

Detailed explanation-2: -Some 12 to 20 million Africans were enslaved in the western hemisphere after an Atlantic voyage of 6 to 10 weeks. This voyage, now known as the “Middle Passage”, consumed some 20 per cent of its “human cargo”. Disease and death were common outcomes in this human tragedy.

Detailed explanation-3: -The captives were about to embark on the infamous Middle Passage, so called because it was the middle leg of a three-part voyage–a voyage that began and ended in Europe. The first leg of the voyage carried a cargo that often included iron, cloth, brandy, firearms, and gunpowder.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -The conditions for enslaved Africans crossing the Atlantic Ocean in the Middle Passage were brutal and deadly. “Slaver” ships were specifically designed for maximizing the numbers of African men, women, and children that slave-trading captains and their crews could bring to the Americas.