middle passage
or Middle Passage
the part of the Atlantic Ocean between the west coast of Africa and the West Indies: the longest part of the journey formerly made by slave ships.
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What about North American, Caribbean, and European blacks who trace their ancestry to the middle passage?
What Makes a Great Olympian? Sometimes It’s Genetics | Jon Entine | August 11, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTNevertheless the abominable cruelties to which the slaves were subjected during the middle passage were clearly proved.
The Political History of England - Vol. X. | William HuntIn each story were two rooms, separated by an entry, or middle passage, with which they communicated by opposite doors.
Wieland; or The Transformation | Charles Brockden BrownLa Salle followed that of the west, and Dautray that of the east; while Tonty took the middle passage.
La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West | Francis ParkmanAnd the mortality of the middle passage, computed by some at five, is now admitted not to have exceeded nine per cent.
He walked up and down the middle passage like a suffering animal, his gall rising.
Pelle the Conqueror, Complete | Martin Anderson Nexo
British Dictionary definitions for middle passage
the middle passage history the journey across the Atlantic Ocean from the W coast of Africa to the Caribbean: the longest part of the journey of the slave ships sailing to the Caribbean or the Americas
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