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PRONUNCIATION OF MIDDLE PASSAGE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MIDDLE PASSAGE

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Middle passage is a noun.
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WHAT DOES MIDDLE PASSAGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Middle Passage

The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of people from Africa were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade. Ships departed Europe for African markets with manufactured goods, which were traded for purchased or kidnapped Africans, who were transported across the Atlantic as slaves; the slaves were then sold or traded for raw materials, which would be transported back to Europe to complete the voyage. Voyages on the Middle Passage were a large financial undertaking, and they were generally organized by companies or groups of investors rather than individuals. The "Middle Passage" was considered a time of in-betweenness for those being traded from Africa to America. The close quarters and intentional division of pre-established African communities by the ship crew motivated captive Africans to forge bonds of kinship which then created forced transatlantic communities. These newly established bonds greatly impacted and altered African identity and culture within each community. It was a significant contributing aspect to the slaves' survival of the "Middle Passage" and carried into their life in America.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MIDDLE PASSAGE

middle ground
Middle High German
Middle Irish
Middle Kingdom
middle lamella
Middle Low German
middle management
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middle name
middle of nowhere
Middle Palaeolithic
Middle Persian
middle school
Middle States
Middle Temple
middle term
middle voice
middle watch

WORDS THAT END LIKE MIDDLE PASSAGE

dressage
error message
get the message
head massage
instant message
massage
message
Northwest Passage
off-message
passage
repassage
rite de passage
rite of passage
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stone massage
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Swedish massage
telephone message
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vernissage

Synonyms and antonyms of middle passage in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «middle passage» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MIDDLE PASSAGE

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Translator English - Chinese

中间通道
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

medio pasaje
570 millions of speakers

English

middle passage
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मध्य बीतने
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الممر الأوسط
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

средний проход
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

passagem do meio
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মাঝখানে উত্তরণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

passage du milieu
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Laluan tengah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Mitteldurchgang
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

中間通路
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

중간 통로
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tengah dalan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đoạn giữa
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நடுத்தர பத்தியில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मध्यम रस्ता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Orta geçiş
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

middle Passage
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

środkowy fragment
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

середній прохід
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pasaj de mijloc
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μεσαίας διόδου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

middel gedeelte
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

mitten passagen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

mellompassasjen
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MIDDLE PASSAGE»

The term «middle passage» is regularly used and occupies the 90.170 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MIDDLE PASSAGE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about middle passage

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MIDDLE PASSAGE»

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Middle Passage
Peopled with vivid and unforgettable characters, nimble in its interplay of comedy and serious ideas, this dazzling modern classic is a perfect blend of the picaresque tale, historical romance, sea yarn, slave narrative, and philosophical ...
Charles Johnson, 2012
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Middle Passage
In 1830, Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave leading a dissolute life in New Orleans, finds himself forced into marriage.
Charles Johnson, 1998
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Encyclopedia of the Middle Passage
Features over two hunded entries on people, places, and other topics related to the slave trade, contains alphabetical and topical lists of entries, and includes a timeline extending from the fifteenth through the late twentieth century.
Toyin Falola, Amanda Warnock, 2007
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Black Imagination and the Middle Passage
This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession caused by the Middle Passage.
Maria Diedrich, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Carl Pedersen, 1999
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The middle passage: from misery to meaning in midlife
What does the pattern mean and how can we survive it? The Middle Passage shows how we may pass through midlife consciously, rendering our lives more meaningful and the second half of life immeasurably richer.
James Hollis, 1993
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The Middle Passage: White Ships/black Cargo
A brutally frank and stunningly illustrated history of the slave trade shows the horrors of the middle passage, the tragic journey that captive Africans endured on their way to be sold as slaves in the New World.
‎1995
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The Middle Passage: The Caribbean Revisited
Naipaul’s first work of travel writing is a deft and remarkably prescient account of his journey in 1960 from London to his birthplace, the Caribbean island of Trinidad. From the Trade Paperback edition.
V.S. Naipaul, 2012
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The Slave Trade and the Middle Passage
"Traces the history of the transatlantic slave trade and the development of slavery in the New World"--Provided by publisher.
S. Pearl Sharp, 2006
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Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American ...
This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and the depths of its horrors.
Stephanie E. Smallwood, 2009
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The Middle Passage
Lewis Frank Tooker. THE MIDDLE PASSAGE THE MIDDLE PASSAGE i IT seems to me now that.
Lewis Frank Tooker, 1920

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MIDDLE PASSAGE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term middle passage is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Saccharine 'Amazing Grace' Exemplifies Our National …
But despite the cast's considerable musical talents, the catastrophic slaughter of the Middle Passage may just be fundamentally incompatible ... «Village Voice, Jul 15»
2
Kasambu …”Come Out Of Her, People”
No Maroon came through the Middle Passage. It is certainly a big lie that we arbitrarily beat and sometimes kill homosexuals in Jamaica, but, ... «Global News Network, Jul 15»
3
Pollyanna in politics
Said clerisy is now orthodoxy, and is still obsessively angry over Naipaul's Mimic Men and Middle Passage. And its solution to the big national ... «Trinidad Guardian, Jul 15»
4
St. Louis/Ferguson, ready for 'Justice Or Else!'
“You are the original of everything! You have the strongest of bones. Those who survived the Middle Passage were the strongest of the strong,” ... «FinalCall.com News, Jul 15»
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A Letter to My African-American Daughter, and a Response to Ta …
... neighborhoods where black people live — are bringing me, inevitably, to tell you about the big things: about things like the Middle Passage, ... «National Review Online, Jul 15»
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New editions of Dostoyevsky, Flannery O'Connor and Charles …
MIDDLE PASSAGE, by Charles Johnson. This National Book Award-winning novel, published 25 years ago, comes with a new introduction by ... «Newsday, Jul 15»
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Black rabbi: Jews traditionally 'global'
... with the Ethiopian Jews now in Israel and publish a common prayer book that honors victims of the Holocaust as well as the Middle Passage, ... «NWAOnline, Jul 15»
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The 'battle flag' finally comes down
... Cummings Professor of the Humanities at the College of William and Mary, where she has directed the Middle Passage Project since 1995. «The Hill, Jul 15»
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Despite Honest Attempts at Universality, "Amazing Grace" Falls Short
... undergoes a fantastical journey to find God and denounce his facilitation of the Middle Passage. Meanwhile, his crush on childhood friend ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
10
Before Amistad was the Antelope — an untold story of slave trade
Despite surviving the Middle Passage, the slaves now found themselves thrust into a new form of limbo. Though slavery was legal in half the ... «The Philadelphia Tribune, Jul 15»

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