The Middle Passage
"Middle Passage"
The middle passage
The triangular trade route
The "Middle Passage" refers to the trade routes from West Africa to the Caribbean, South America, and the southern United States that ships took to transport Africans as slaves for sale away from their homes. The Middle Passage is one of the most brutal and disgusting stories in human misery caused by other humans: Africans were often chained aboard the ships and underfed or not fed, forced to lie tightly in bunks in their own excrement, without the benefit of sun or water, for the four to eight weeks of the journey. Over half of the people who were moved in ships this way died. The Middle Passage in many ways exceeds and is at least comparable the abuses that are well-known from the Holocaust of the 20th century.the ships were often followed by sharks because of the females mestrual cycles.The slaves would know this and they would jump of the ship as there last resulotion(suicide).
The middle passage, part of the Triangular Trade, carried slaves from Africa to America.
It was the middle part of the triangular trade route.
The Middle Passage
The leg of the triangle trade where Africans were brought to America was known as the Middle Passage.
The Middle Passage
Africa received man-made goods from Britain such as guns and ammunition
The triangular trade route, ships began in New England. They carried guns and other goods to ports on the coast of West Africa. Here, they traded these goods for gold and captive Africans. The ship then sailed for the West Indies. Because it was known as the Middle Passage.
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