In this online learning module, I cover the middle passage from capture through the trans-Atlantic voyage and “seasoning.” We’ll catch glimpse of middle passage conditions from a firsthand account, as well as why slavery apologists get it wrong.

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SOURCES:

Berlin, Ira. The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations. New York: Penguin Books, 2014. Internet resource. 

Equiano, Olaudah. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Or, Gustavus Vassa, the African. , 1793. Print. 

Klein HS, Engerman SL, Haines R, Shlomowitz R. Transoceanic mortality: the slave trade in comparative perspective. William Mary Q. 2001;58(1):93-117.