middle passage
1Middle passage — Passage Pas sage, n. [F. passage. See {Pass}, v. i.] 1. The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a… …
2Middle passage — Middle Mid dle (m[i^]d d l), a. [OE. middel, AS. middel; akin to D. middel, OHG. muttil, G. mittel. [root]271. See {Mid}, a.] [1913 Webster] 1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the… …
3middle passage — n. the passage across the Atlantic from W Africa to the West Indies or America that was the route of the former slave trade …
4middle passage — 1788, in reference to the trans Atlantic slave trade …
5Middle Passage — This article is about the slave trade route. For the novel by Charles R. Johnson, see Middle Passage (novel). For the travelogue by V.S. Naipaul, see The Middle Passage (book). Commercial goods from Europe were shipped to Africa for sale and… …
6middle passage — Hist. the part of the Atlantic Ocean between the west coast of Africa and the West Indies: the longest part of the journey formerly made by slave ships. Also, Middle Passage. [1780 90] * * * ▪ slave trade in the days of the African slave trade… …
7middle passage — noun Specifically, the middle part of the sea voyage by which slaves were transported from Africa to America. The city once laid claim to the largest fleet of slave ships in the history of the trade as its merchants overtook Bristol and London in …
8middle passage — noun Usage: often capitalized M&P : the middle part of the journey of a slave from Africa to America; specifically : the trip across the Atlantic ocean half died on the way to the ships, and a quarter in the Middle Passage G.S.Mitchell …
9Middle Passage — Der Begriff Atlantischer Sklavenhandel bezieht sich auf die im 16. Jahrhundert einsetzende Versklavung der Bewohner des westlichen, zentralen und südlichen Afrikas durch die Europäer und ihren Transport über den Atlantik nach Nordamerika,… …
10Middle Passage (novel) — Middle Passage   1st edition cover …
