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It can be used to refer to the trade route that transported African slaves across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas during the 16th to 19th centuries. For example: "The legacy of the Middle Passage can still be seen to this day."
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middle passage
noun
A middle way, especially between two extremes; an intermediate path in space or time.
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It was "The Middle Passage" all over again.
Then came the horrors of the middle passage.
The middle passage of the voice is still not there.
Without being overly literal, it evokes the dehumanizing Middle Passage of slavery.
The Middle Passage, in other words, was sometimes a two-way street.
"I was moved by the story of Middle Passage," she said.
The move was feared almost as much as the first migration, known as the Middle Passage.
The remaining 32 years of Brooks's life are thankfully not as "interesting" as that middle passage.
Items are reminders of the horrors of slavery's dreaded "middle passage" across the ocean.
Middle Passage, the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World.
A few oblique scenes and speeches describe the horrors of the Middle Passage and of slavery.
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