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Definition of middle passage in English: middle passagenoun historical The sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies. Example sentencesExamples - Through Mehuru's eyes, we see not only the horrific conditions of the middle passage, but also first impressions of white femininity.
- The journey from Haiti in the 1980s is like a new middle passage.
- Girl, your ancestors survived the fateful trip to the coast, the middle passage, survived slavery, colonialism and everything else that came with it.
- Chapter two covers the process of enslavement in Africa, the middle passage and ship-board rebellions, and briefly touches on the sale of slaves in the New World.
- The cruelest step was the middle passage on slave ships across the Atlantic Ocean.
Definition of middle passage in US English: middle passagenoun historical The sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies. Example sentencesExamples - Girl, your ancestors survived the fateful trip to the coast, the middle passage, survived slavery, colonialism and everything else that came with it.
- Chapter two covers the process of enslavement in Africa, the middle passage and ship-board rebellions, and briefly touches on the sale of slaves in the New World.
- Through Mehuru's eyes, we see not only the horrific conditions of the middle passage, but also first impressions of white femininity.
- The cruelest step was the middle passage on slave ships across the Atlantic Ocean.
- The journey from Haiti in the 1980s is like a new middle passage.
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