On the southern plantation, suppressed memories of the middle passage surfaced in what Booker T. Washington referred to as whispered conversation[s]: “In the slave quarters and even later, he writes, ...

ROGER McKENZIE reflects on the enslavement, endurance and rebellion of Africans trafficked across the Atlantic and the untold sufferings of unknown ancestors ...

Slavery was its fuel. Many stakeholders benefited from the cotton economy — plantation owners in the ... This created a Second Middle Passage, the second largest forced migration in America ...

So horrific is their "middle passage" across the Atlantic that almost a quarter of them die during the crossing. Slavery's inhumane ... run away from a Virginia plantation. Captured and returned ...

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 ...

This involved confinement in the slave factories of the West African coast followed by the horrific and potentially fatal ordeal of the Middle Passage. On a slave ship, enslaved people had to ...

Learn how European trading posts developed into slave fortresses where captive people were held in terrible conditions. What was the Middle Passage ... the importance of plantation crops ...

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 ...