Twenty-five years after Charles Johnson's Middle Passage — which dwells with race, class and gender in 19th-century America — won the National Book Award, he reflects on his book's evolving ...

The Middle Passage Marker is a step towards broadening the narrative of colonial Massachusetts and acknowledging the role of slavery in the colony, and in the founding and evolution of the United ...

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

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.

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

A perilous conceptual and stylistic gamble, Martinique director Guy Deslauriers' "The Middle Passage" aims to distill four centuries of African genocide in one brutal, archetypal slave-trade ...

Instead I chose a novel I had heard about many times but never read -- "Middle Passage" by Charles Johnson, which won the 1990 National Book Award. In the slave-selling business in 1830, ...

72 Hour Hold A Novel Bebe Moore Campbell Alfred A. Knopf: 326 pp., $24.95 ...