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Middle Passage

Meaning in history, with examples

nounCommon term

In history, Middle Passage means: The forced Atlantic crossing of enslaved Africans to the Americas within the slave trade.

In Turkish: Orta Geçiş, Atlantik köle ticaretindeki zorunlu deniz geçişi

How it is used

Use for this specific coerced crossing; avoid treating it as ordinary voluntary migration.

Example sentences

  1. The testimony describes confinement during the Middle Passage.

    Personal evidence reveals experience within forced transportation.

  2. The exhibition connects the Middle Passage with family histories on both shores.

    The crossing had consequences extending beyond the voyage.

Common collocations

  • survive the Middle Passage
  • Middle Passage testimony
  • slaveryA system in which people are legally owned by others, forced to work without pay and denied basic freedoms, or the condition of being enslaved.
  • migrationThe movement of people from one place to another to live, either within a country or across borders, alone or in large groups.

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