Bey’s show gets its name from a passage in the second stanza of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the hymn by James Weldon Johnson ...

Just as horrifying as these death marches was the Middle Passage, as it was called -- the transport of slaves across the Atlantic. On the first leg of their trip, slave traders delivered goods ...

The African slave boarding the ship had no idea what lay ahead. Africans who had made the Middle Passage to the plantations of the New World did not return to their homeland to tell what happened ...

William Wilberforce used the model during the Abolition Campaign to demonstrate the horrors of the Middle Passage.The model was based on an actual slave ship built in Liverpool in 1780-81 and co ...

Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project Founder Ann Chinn says it’s not about slavery - it’s about acknowledging the impacts on history. “I think it’s doing what I think is very ...

The 1788 Slave Trade Act was introduced to try ... public attention at the time but came to symbolise the horrors of the Middle Passage and strengthened the abolition campaign.

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - A marker in Biloxi now honors and shows the very place the first slaves were brought during the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The Biloxi NAACP held the program, talking about ...