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middle passage  

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  • The Middle Passage was the dreadful passage across the Atlantic Ocean made by Africans—who were forced into tight quarters with inadequate food and water and the ill and dying among them—for several weeks or even months en route to being sold into slavery. The Middle Passage and the transatlantic slave trade are inextricably linked, with an examination of the Middle Passage serving to illuminate one aspect of the incalculable tragedy of Africans' enslavement. [Source: Encyclopedia of Black Studies; Middle Passage]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-GN8FG651-9

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