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Bookmark or Share- Middle Passage | Definition, Conditions, Significance, & FactsMiddle Passage, the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World. It was one leg of the triangular trade route that took goods from Europe to Africa, Africans to work as slaves in the Americas and the West Indies, and items produced on the plantations back to Europe.
- The Middle Passage - U.S. National Park ServiceThe Middle Passage. Boston African American National Historic Site. Map showing the primary movement of Enslaved Africans, raw materials, and manufactured goods.
- The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Middle PassageBetween 1517 and 1867, about 12.5 million Africans began the Middle Passage across the Atlantic, enduring cruel treatment, disease, and paralyzing fear aboard slave ships. Of those, about 10.7 million survived, with about 40 percent of them going to work on sugarcane plantations in Brazil.
- Middle Passage, Summary, Facts, Significance, APUSH, PortsThe Middle Passage was a route in the Triangular Trade System that started in Northwest Africa, crossed the Atlantic Ocean, and ended in the Americas. The Middle Passage is most well-known for its use in the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the terrible suffering it imposed on imprisoned Africans who were sold into slavery.
- Middle Passage - WikipediaThe 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. Ships departed Europe for African markets with manufactured goods (first side of the triangle), which were then traded for slaves with rulers of African states and other ...
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