The sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.
〈史〉中央航路（指奴隶贩运船从西非到西印度群岛的航路）
Example sentencesExamples
Through Mehuru's eyes, we see not only the horrific conditions of the middle passage, but also first impressions of white femininity.
The journey from Haiti in the 1980s is like a new middle passage.
Girl, your ancestors survived the fateful trip to the coast, the middle passage, survived slavery, colonialism and everything else that came with it.
Chapter two covers the process of enslavement in Africa, the middle passage and ship-board rebellions, and briefly touches on the sale of slaves in the New World.
The cruelest step was the middle passage on slave ships across the Atlantic Ocean.
Definition of middle passage in US English:
middle passage
noun
historical
The sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.
〈史〉中央航路（指奴隶贩运船从西非到西印度群岛的航路）
Example sentencesExamples
Girl, your ancestors survived the fateful trip to the coast, the middle passage, survived slavery, colonialism and everything else that came with it.
Chapter two covers the process of enslavement in Africa, the middle passage and ship-board rebellions, and briefly touches on the sale of slaves in the New World.
Through Mehuru's eyes, we see not only the horrific conditions of the middle passage, but also first impressions of white femininity.
The cruelest step was the middle passage on slave ships across the Atlantic Ocean.
The journey from Haiti in the 1980s is like a new middle passage.