2. The Middle Passage
This page examines the horrors of the 'Middle Passage', the second leg of the transatlantic 'triangular' trade in which the slaves were forced to endure 'a kind of living death' aboard the slave ships. Guiding questions: What was the Middle Passage? How did slaves resist? What happened when slaves arrived in the Americas? ..by the late seventeenth century, the New England merchant, the Barbadian planter, the English...