And the worst was yet to come. The captives were about to embark on the infamous Middle Passage, so called because it was the middle leg of a three-part voyage -- a voyage that began and ended in ...
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 ...
This rite also guides ancestral guardians to find their African children in the New World, and celebrates known and unknown descendants who survived the Middle Passage to continue the struggle for ...
The “Middle Passage to Biloxi” marker also commemorates the arrival of those individuals during that time. Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project Founder Ann Chinn says it’s not ...
Dr. Joanne M. Braxton, College of William and Mary Middle Passage Project In 1997, I participated in a pilgrimage to “sites of memory” in Ghana, Ivory Coast and Senegal as part of a journey ...
Imani Perry traces the history and symbolism of the color blue, from the indigo of the slave trade, to Coretta Scott King's ...
Storytelling Arts of Indiana will present a unique storytelling show to honor Black History Month. Audiences will be moved ...
They then set sail for Caribbean and the Americas. This journey across the Atlantic was called the Middle Passage. Slave ships usually took between six and eleven weeks to complete the voyage.