The Middle Passage was a brutal journey of African slaves across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas, documented by abolitionist Olaudah Equiano.
The Middle Passage was the transatlantic journey that African slaves were forced to make from Africa to the Americas.
It was a horrific experience where enslaved individuals were packed in tight quarters, chained, and subjected to inhumane conditions resulting in high mortality rates.
Olaudah Equiano, a former slave and abolitionist, documented the cruel realities of the Middle Passage in his memoir, contributing to the eventual abolition of the British slave trade.