Just as horrifying as these death marches was the Middle Passage, as it was called -- the transport of slaves across the Atlantic. On the first leg of their trip, slave traders delivered goods ...

And the worst was yet to come. The captives were about to embark on the infamous Middle Passage, so called because it was the middle leg of a three-part voyage -- a voyage that began and ended in ...

This rite also guides ancestral guardians to find their African children in the New World, and celebrates known and unknown descendants who survived the Middle Passage to continue the struggle for ...

The “Middle Passage to Biloxi” marker also commemorates the arrival of those individuals during that time. Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project Founder Ann Chinn says it’s not ...

Dr. Joanne M. Braxton, College of William and Mary Middle Passage Project In 1997, I participated in a pilgrimage to “sites of memory” in Ghana, Ivory Coast and Senegal as part of a journey ...

They then set sail for Caribbean and the Americas. This journey across the Atlantic was called the Middle Passage. Slave ships usually took between six and eleven weeks to complete the voyage.