Middle Passage
noun
: the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas
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Also on the Saturday before Juneteenth, Hampton held its annual Remembrance Day ceremony, which honors the nearly 2 million Africans who died en route to America during the Middle Passage.
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Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 20 June 2025
Momma gives it to Addy to honor her bravery, the same valor that her great-grandmother had possessed in surviving Middle Passage, the auction block, and life on the plantation.
—Jaha Nailah Avery
june 9, Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
The painting conjures a roiling ocean, as though Whitten—who later became a scuba diver, and enjoyed hunting octopuses—were envisioning a doomsday resurrection of the Middle Passage dead.
—Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 29 May 2025
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.
—Deborah Barfield Berry, USA Today, 13 Apr. 2025
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Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 20 June 2025
Momma gives it to Addy to honor her bravery, the same valor that her great-grandmother had possessed in surviving Middle Passage, the auction block, and life on the plantation.
—Jaha Nailah Avery
june 9, Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
The painting conjures a roiling ocean, as though Whitten—who later became a scuba diver, and enjoyed hunting octopuses—were envisioning a doomsday resurrection of the Middle Passage dead.
—Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 29 May 2025
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.
—Deborah Barfield Berry, USA Today, 13 Apr. 2025
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“Middle Passage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Middle%20Passage. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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