... passage' particularly interesting for African diaspora studies, as it reveals the term's history in denoting both movement and distribution – the Middle Passage and its resulting diaspora. In the last decades of the eighteenth century ...

An Economy Based on Human Misery Phyllis Raybin Emert. The Middle Passage The second leg of the triangular trade route was called the " middle passage . " This was the ocean crossing from the African coast to the slave markets of the ...

... than three men to every two tons ; and that the height of slave - vessels between decks should not be less than five feet . In 1813 it was decreed by the government of Portugal and Brazil that two tons 96 THE SLAVE TRADE . Middle Passage.

... passage round up the middle passage , receive holy communion and go back to their places down the side passage . N.B. It may happen that there are seats for egress on ... middle passage have gone out of their seats 230 SUNDAY SCHOOL.

... Passage Middle Passage Grass Cay St. John 69 BURY SOUND . - Thatch Cay , an island on the western side of the northern approach to the sound , is separated from St. Thomas by Leeward Passage . The island has the form of a ridge , 482 ...

Addressed to the Freeholders and Other Inhabitants of Yorkshire William Wilberforce. Middle passage . " the parents , become entitled to all the pri- vileges of the native class . " * 66 On the middle passage but little shall be said ...

... middle passage " -Wilberforce , Letter , 1807 . It was well observed by Mr. Fox , in a debate on the Slave Trade , that " True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear ; it consists not in starting or shrinking at such tales as these ...

... Middle Passage , 727–30 ; Fantasque and Sagittaire to support landing of French troops on I. of Rhode Island , 768 , 769 ; fleet to anchor in Middle Passage , Narragansett Bay , 747 , 748 ; fleet to anchor off Block I. , R.I. , 555 ...