The term “Middle Passage” is an emotionally benign and - TopicsExpress



          

The term “Middle Passage” is an emotionally benign and sanitized term that relates to the transportation of millions upon millions of African captives across the Atlantic. Termed thusly for the second leg of the journey for vile, European slave “traders” on their expeditions of carnage and psychic destruction across the seas, it was the middle portion of their triangular, transatlantic journey. For the captive African, it was their passage to the very depths of hell and evil. In many ways, for the enslaved African, it signified not a middle passage but the beginning of the end. An end to freedom, dignity, self-sufficiency and the cultural legacy of a rich and varied homeland.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 14:55:51 +0000

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