What was the name of the route slave ships took when traveling across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to America?

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Harley Lowe

3 October, 05:17

What was the name of the route slave ships took when traveling across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to America?

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Gunnar Ryan · Answer 1

Once a slave ship had a full cargo of enslaved Africans, the captain would set out on the next leg of the journey. This leg, called the Middle Passage, took the Africans away from their homeland, across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.