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单词 middle passage
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middle passage

or Middle Passage


noun History/Historical.

the part of the Atlantic Ocean between the west coast of Africa and the West Indies: the longest part of the journey formerly made by slave ships.

Origin of middle passage

First recorded in 1780–90

Words nearby middle passage

middlemost, middle name, middle-of-the-road, Middle Palaeolithic, Middle Palisade, middle passage, Middle Path, Middle Persian, middle rectal node, middle rectal vein, Middle River
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Example sentences from the Web for middle passage

  • What a thing of life (and death) to walk the middle-passage; to fly in and out of African bays and creeks!

    Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853)|Various

British Dictionary definitions for middle passage

middle passage

noun

the middle passage history the journey across the Atlantic Ocean from the W coast of Africa to the Caribbean: the longest part of the journey of the slave ships sailing to the Caribbean or the Americas
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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