What was the Middle Passage?

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What was the Middle Passage?

The Middle Passage was the stage of the Atlantic slave trade where enslaved Africans were transported across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. It was a brutal and inhumane journey that involved cramped and unsanitary conditions on slave ships, high mortality rates, and extreme suffering for the enslaved individuals.