For weeks, months, sometimes as long as a year, they waited in the dungeons of the slave factories scattered along Africa's western coast. They had already made the long, difficult journey from Africa ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - A marker in Biloxi now honors and shows the very place the first slaves were brought during the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The Biloxi NAACP held the program, talking about the ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - On Saturday, a special ceremony was held in Biloxi to honor the first arrival of enslaved Africans who arrived on the Gulf Coast and died along the Middle Passage. Local leaders ...

Mickey Love, Executive Director, Historic London Town and Garden, welcomes guests. Historic London Town and Gardens hosted its Middle Passage Port Marker Ceremony in remembrance of ancestors, ...

Enslaved Africans’ history has been lost for centuries to development — buildings, landfills, parking lots, strip malls, business parks. In 1991, in New York’s Lower Manhattan, construction workers ...

PERTH AMBOY – This waterfront community has for long promoted its ties to America's proud and rich history. But last week state, county and city officials took time to recognize and remember ancestors ...

A DEDICATION CEREMONY HELD FOR A BOSTON'S NEW MIDDLE PASSAGE PORT MARKER CONFRONTING THE CITY'S HISTORICAL CONNECTION TO SLAVERY. ERIKA: THE MARKER INSTALLED AT THE EAST END OF LONG WARF EXPLAINS HOW ...

When Charles R. Johnson wrote the novel “Middle Passage,” which won the National Book Award in 1990 for the Evanston-born writer, he immersed himself in the musings of nautical adventurers: Herman ...

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Welcome to the Middle Passage Project of the College of William and Mary! The Middle Passage Project, founded 1995, serves to explore the history and memory surrounding the transatlantic slave trade, ...