The ceremony provided an opportunity for attendees to collectively remember the millions sold, kidnapped and lost during the Middle Passage. “It puts us in touch with history,” said longtime ...

Eboni and Menes Yahudah pose for a photo with their daughter, Cairo, 3, at the conclusion of the program. Historic London Town and Gardens hosted its Middle Passage Port Marker Ceremony in ...

More than 2 million didn’t survive the 21 to 90-day voyage, known as the Middle Passage. Many of them were brutally tossed overboard. Washington said she stands in front of the crowd as a ...

This brutally cruel and disruptive phase of the trade, as all American schoolchildren should be taught, is known as “the Middle Passage.” But what is often left out of many survey courses is ...

The “Middle Passage to Biloxi” marker also commemorates the arrival of those individuals during that time. Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project Founder Ann Chinn says it’s not ...

And the worst was yet to come. 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 ...