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What (who) is middle passage - definition
middle passage
¦ noun historical the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.
Middle Passage (poem)
POEM BY ROBERT HAYDEN
"Middle Passage" is a poem by Robert Hayden. Hayden first published the poem in 1945 and revised it in 1962.
passage grave
TYPE OF NEOLITHIC TOMB MADE OF LARGE STONES
Passage tomb; Passage Grave; Passage graves; Passage Tombs
¦ noun Archaeology a prehistoric megalithic burial chamber inside a mound, with a passage leading to the exterior.
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Middle Passage
thumb|350px|Commercial goods from Europe were shipped to Africa for sale and traded for enslaved Africans. Africans were in turn brought to the regions depicted in blue, in what became known as the "Middle Passage".
Examples of use of middle passage
1. On Saturday, offerings of water, honey and rum were to be poured along the shores of South Carolina and elsewhere for Middle Passage Remembrance Day.
2. The barbarity of the Middle Passage often led to 30% mortality rates among the 10 million slaves shipped across the Atlantic.
3. On Saturday, offerings of water, honey and rum were poured along the shores of South Carolina and elsewhere for Middle Passage Remembrance Day.
4. The leader of the House of Lords, who was born in the Caribbean and the descendent of slaves herself, has visited slave forts in Ghana – where Africans were shackled before being shipped on the "middle passage" to the Americas.
5. As Marcus Rediker recalls in a new book on the slave trade, 1.8 million slaves died during that journey known as the Middle Passage, their bodies thrown to the sharks.