Question

Use the quotation and your knowledge of social studies to answer the question.

“The closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship, which was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost suffocated us….The shrieks of the women, and the groans of the dying, rendered the whole a scene of horror almost inconceivable.”

–The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

Enslaved people such as those described in the quote experienced a brutal voyage known as the _____.


Middle Passage

Columbian Exchange

Gullah

Atlantic Crossing

Answer 1

This quotation of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano describes the middle passage, the brutal voyage enslaved people made between Africa and America.

Answer 2

Answer:

Enslaved people such as those described in the quote experienced a brutal voyage known as the Middle Passage.

Explanation:

The Middle Passage was the portion of the Triangle trade route across the Atlantic, through which Africans were transported from Africa to the slave markets in North America, South America, and the Caribbean.

The Middle Passage was so named because, seen from Europe, it was the middle part of the Triangle trade between Western Europe, Africa and America; ships sailed from Europe with goods for the African market, where the goods were sold or exchanged for slaves. The slaves were shipped to America and the Caribbean, where they were exchanged in slave markets for goods that could be sold on the European market, after which they returned to Europe.