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middle passage

(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography)

the History the journey across the Atlantic Ocean from the W coast of Africa to the Caribbean: the longest part of the journey of the slave ships sailing to the Caribbean or the Americas

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No references found			In the slave quarters, and even later, I heard whispered conversations among the coloured people of the tortures which the slaves, including, no doubt, my ancestors on my mother's side, suffered in the middle passage of the slave ship while being conveyed from Africa to America. Up From Slavery by Washington, Booker T. View in context			Middle Dutch middle ear Middle East Middle Eastern middle eight Middle England Middle English middle finger middle game Middle Greek middle ground Middle High German Middle Iranian Middle Irish Middle Kingdom middle lamella Middle Loup Middle Low German middle management middle meningeal artery middle name middle of the roader Middle Palaeolithic Middle Paleolithic Middle Palisade middle passage Middle Persian Middle rib middle school Middle States Middle Stone Age Middle Temple middle temporal vein middle term middle thyroid vein Middle voice middle watch Middle Welsh Middle West Middle Western Middle Westerner middle white middle youth Middle-age middle-age spread middle-aged middle-aged man middle-class middle-distance middle-ear deafness Middle-earth			Middle Niobrara Weed Awareness Group middle note Middle of Book Middle of Curve Middle of Month Middle of nowhere Middle of nowhere Middle of Nowhere Anime Club Middle of the Night Middle of the Pack Middle of the Road Middle of the Road Gang Middle Of the Road Music middle of the roader Middle of the Week Middle office Middle office Middle Office Data Model Middle Office Reporting System Middle Ohio River Valley Middle Ordovician Middle Palaeolithic Middle Paleolithic Middle Paleolithic Middle Paleolothic Middle Paleolothic Middle Palisade Middle Park Land Trust middle passage middle passages Middle Peninsula Amateur Radio Services Middle Peninsula Land Trust Middle Peninsula Planning District Commission Middle Peninsula Referral Network Middle Peninsula-Northern Neck Community Services Board Middle Pennsylvanian Middle Permian Middle Persian Middle Persian Middle Persian Dictionary Project Middle Persian language middle phalangeal complementary fibrocartilage middle phalangeal complementary fibrocartilage middle phalangeal complementary fibrocartilage middle piece middle piece middle piece middle piece middle piece middle plate Middle Point Middle Point Middle Point, Ohio Middle Pointed style middle position middle post Middle Raccoon River middle rail Middle range theory

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