For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

See photos of the Middle Passage Port Marker Ceremony at Historic London Town and Gardens on Maryland Emancipation Day, November 1, 2023.

The captives were about to embark on the infamous Middle Passage, so called because it was the middle leg of a three-part voyage -- a voyage that began and ended in Europe.

Historians generally believe that the first set of enslaved Africans to land in the world that was new to Europeans were transported by a Portuguese ship, the Sao Joao Bautista in 1619. This ship ...

After the transatlantic slave trade, the second forced migration, or second middle passage, was known as the domestic, or internal, slave trade in America.

Find out about the Middle Passage, the stage of the triangular trade in which enslaved African people were transported to the Caribbean with this BBC Bitesize National 5 History article on the ...

The sculptures were not intended as a tribute to the slaves of the Middle Passage Created in 2006, the underwater sculpture, "Vicissitudes," is not about the Middle Passage, the portion of the ...

The “Middle Passage to Biloxi” marker also commemorates the arrival of those individuals during that time. Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project Founder Ann Chinn says it’s not ...

The Rhode Island Middle Passage Port Marker Project has been working on erecting a memorial recognizing the role Newport played in the slave trade since before 2018, ...

Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project Founder Ann Chinn says it’s not about slavery - it’s about acknowledging the impacts on history.