The African slave boarding the ship had no idea what lay ahead. Africans who had made the Middle Passage to the plantations of the New World did not return to their homeland to tell what happened ...

Just as horrifying as these death marches was the Middle Passage, as it was called ... treated like cattle during the crossing. On the slave ships, people were stuffed between decks in spaces ...

A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep.

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.