USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Middle Passage itself lasted roughly 80 days on ships ranging from small schooners to massive, purpose-built “slave ships.” Ship crews packed humans together on or below decks without space to sit up or move around.

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 For the captive Africans aboard a slave ship, the voyage to the New World was a passage of nearly unimaginable horror.

Detailed explanation-4: -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. The Caribbean was at the core of the crime against humanity induced by the transatlantic slave trade and slavery.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Atlantic slave trade, transatlantic slave trade, or Euro-American slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas.