Maghan Keita
The Middle Passage was the dreadful passage across the Atlantic Ocean made by Africans—who were forced into tight quarters with inadequate food and water and the ill and dying among them—for several weeks or even months en route to being sold into slavery. The Middle Passage and the transatlantic slave trade are inextricably linked, with an examination of the Middle Passage serving to illuminate one aspect of the incalculable tragedy of Africans' enslavement. Geographical and temporal factors contribute to our understanding of the Middle Passage, but considering only these factors is a disservice to the scope and impact of abominable human suffering of the Middle Passage. The tendency of 21st-century U.S. scholars has been to focus on geography and consider the impact of the Middle Passage on the North American boundaries of the American state. In many ways, this has precluded examination and analysis of the Middle Passage and its ...
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