African Slavery and the Middle Passage:Possibly more horrifying than the conditions suffered by enslaved Africans on the plantations in the American South were those they experienced getting there during the Middle Passage. Navigate the pages of this website to comprehend the hardships faced by the nearly 12.5 million Africans transported across the Atlantic to work as enslaved people on American plantations.
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Definition:the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas
the part of the Atlantic Ocean between the west coast of Africa and the Americas: the longest part of the journey formerly made by slave ships |