SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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The Middle Passage
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The Halfway Passage
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The Long Passage
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The Endless Passage
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Detailed explanation-1: -the journey of enslaved West African people across the Atlantic by ship as part of the slave trade.
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: -Historians refer to the transport of slaves across the Atlantic Ocean as the Middle Passage because it was the middle leg of the trade. The living conditions on the ships that carried millions of African men, women and children across the water were extremely poor.
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: -Middle Passage: The voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas and the Caribbean. Second Middle Passage: The forced migration of slaves from the upper south to the lower south of the United States.