THE MIDDLE PASSAGE

WHAT IS THE MIDDLE PASSAGE?

• A sea voyage that brought slaces from Africa to America
• It's called the middle passage because it was in the mid leg of the triangular trade route
• Europe, America (Or the colonies) and Africa and slaves were involved in trades
• Over 12 million Africans or slaves from 16 the to the 19 century using the Atlantic slavery trade
• It took a slave around 1-6 months to get through the journey

WHERE IS THE MIDDLE PASSAGE

• The middle passage begins in England to Africa then America finally back to England
• The transport start at England Africa to America and repeat
• The conditions were in the 1700; awful because of the feces urine and waste being left on the underbelly of the ship
• The Middle Passage began in 1518 and ended in the 19 century

HOW DID IT BEGIN

• The "Middle Passage" was the final leg of the triangular slave trading journey that usually began in a European port months earlier. Sailing from Europe, these slave ships stopped at western ports in Africa to load kidnapped Africans by the thousands, and would then travel across the Atlantic to North America and the Caribbean where they were sold into slavery.
• The middle passage began when colonist began to explore the Barbados area

CREDITS

• http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/381398/Middle-Passage
• http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_passage
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1p277.html