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.

Virginia McGee Richards has spent the past ten years studying and documenting it. She calls it the Inner Passage. When I speak to her over Zoom, she is gracious, even self-effacing, but her ...

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 ...

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 ...