Just as horrifying as these death marches was the Middle Passage, as it was called ... Africans were often treated like cattle during the crossing. On the slave ships, people were stuffed ...

The “Middle Passage to Biloxi” marker also commemorates the arrival of those individuals during that time ... Ann Chinn says it’s not about slavery - it’s about acknowledging the impacts ...

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 ...

For a couple hundred years, most people thought they knew what happened during the Atlantic crossing ... gather the entire human cargo of slaves. The middle passage, as the journey to the Americas ...