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The Middle Passage was
the brutal and horrific transportation of Africans across the Atlantic
to the plantations of the Caribbean and Americas. Africans were captured
and imprisoned in forts, or barracoons on the coast before enduring
the inhumane conditions of the Middle Passage, or the ‘way of
death’. Packed like sardines below deck, in filthy conditions,
at least one million Africans lost their lives on the crossing. Wherever
possible the enslaved resisted. Some violently challenged their oppressors,
others preferred death as a way of resisting the treatment forced
upon them.
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Below decks, mid 19th century
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