What was the "Middle Passage" and how did it effect the colonies?

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Jude Keller

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30 August, 12:16

What was the "Middle Passage" and how did it effect the colonies?

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Jaydin Wilkinson · Answer 1

The Middle Passage refers to the part of the trade where Africans, densely packed onto ships, were transported across the Atlantic to the West Indies

Shepard · Answer 2

This illustration depicts what one reporter saw on the upper deck of a slave ship - "about four hundred and fifty native Africans, in a sitting or squatting posture,