Middle Passage
noun
: the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas
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Yes, and the stream at the back of 124 Bluestone Road is one literal version of water, but this is also clearly the Middle Passage.
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Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
And the horrors of the Middle Passage were intensely present.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 9 June 2026
This could be taken as the view of someone escaping enslavement by jumping overboard during the Middle Passage, until an unseen narrator praises Christopher Columbus’s discovery of the New World.
—Greg Allen, ARTnews.com, 7 June 2026
The exhibit addresses the Middle Passage, an especially fraught part of the Atlantic Ocean crossing where many of the captives died.
—Arkansas Online, 13 Mar. 2026
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Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
And the horrors of the Middle Passage were intensely present.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 9 June 2026
This could be taken as the view of someone escaping enslavement by jumping overboard during the Middle Passage, until an unseen narrator praises Christopher Columbus’s discovery of the New World.
—Greg Allen, ARTnews.com, 7 June 2026
The exhibit addresses the Middle Passage, an especially fraught part of the Atlantic Ocean crossing where many of the captives died.
—Arkansas Online, 13 Mar. 2026
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“Middle Passage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Middle%20Passage. Accessed 16 Jun. 2026.
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