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 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 ...

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 ...

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

• The Middle Passage • John Newton • Liverpool and the Slave Trade Slaves packed like cargo between decks often had to lie in each other's feces, urine, and blood.

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, ...

The Hampton History Museum is hosting a free lecture Monday evening, “Nobody Knows My Name: Remembering the Middle Passage and Confronting America’s Amnesia about Slavery and its ‘Aftermath ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - On Saturday, a special ceremony was held in Biloxi to honor the first arrival of enslaved Africans who arrived on the Gulf Coast and died along the Middle Passage.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse co-director Kemp Powers cites the impact of Charles Johnson’s novel Middle Passage on his storytelling.. Johnson’s historical novel “took over” Powers’ imagination ...