Middle Passage
noun
: the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas
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Sanchez gathered his students there on a field trip from New York City in a quiet space to reflect on the exhibits on slavery and the Middle Passage.
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Deborah Barfield Berry, USA Today, 13 Apr. 2025
The obsession with lineage is at odds with the solidarity of the Middle Passage, which created new forms of kinship.
—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Tragically, Hunt notes, the same global commodity that may have helped liberate British women did the opposite for West Africans, who endured the Middle Passage in ever larger numbers to work as slaves in the Caribbean sugar fields and sweeten English tea.
—Marjoleine Kars, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
Then, the artist Alisa Sikelianos-Carter, her work and going back to the Middle Passage and all of the materials, her work is similar to a local artist, Andrea Chung, who lives here in San Diego.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2025
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Deborah Barfield Berry, USA Today, 13 Apr. 2025
The obsession with lineage is at odds with the solidarity of the Middle Passage, which created new forms of kinship.
—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Tragically, Hunt notes, the same global commodity that may have helped liberate British women did the opposite for West Africans, who endured the Middle Passage in ever larger numbers to work as slaves in the Caribbean sugar fields and sweeten English tea.
—Marjoleine Kars, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
Then, the artist Alisa Sikelianos-Carter, her work and going back to the Middle Passage and all of the materials, her work is similar to a local artist, Andrea Chung, who lives here in San Diego.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2025
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“Middle Passage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Middle%20Passage. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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