Middle Passage
The Middle Passage was a time period in the triangular trade in which millions of the African people were captured and they were shipped to the New World to be a part of the Atlantic slave trade. This part of the triangular trade was like the middle leg of the three-part voyage. The Middle Passage usually took more than seven weeks. These ships departed from Europe for African markets with all types of manufactured goods; the slaves were then sold or traded for raw materials like sugar, cotton, and tobacco. In which the Europeans would transport back to Europe to complete their voyage.
On these ships carried many African Americans. Could you have imagined how it would have been as a slave? The women and males were separate,
The Middle Passage was a time period in the triangular trade in which millions of the African people were captured and they were shipped to the New World to be a part of the Atlantic slave trade. This part of the triangular trade was like the middle leg of the three-part voyage. The Middle Passage usually took more than seven weeks. These ships departed from Europe for African markets with all types of manufactured goods; the slaves were then sold or traded for raw materials like sugar, cotton, and tobacco. In which the Europeans would transport back to Europe to complete their voyage.
On these ships carried many African Americans. Could you have imagined how it would have been as a slave? The women and males were separate,