African merchants, the poor ... 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 ...

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 ...

She spoke fully possessed of an understanding of not only what it meant to be an African American, but also a diasporic African, the daughter of a formerly enslaved father, and the descendant of ...

It is estimated that 15 % of captive African people died during the Middle Passage. In 1781, the crew of the slave ship Zong threw 132 captive Africans overboard to save drinking water and prevent ...