Middle Passage: A Review

Reading the portfolio Middle Passage is a novel filled with various techniques such as implications, prediction, humor, role transition, and many other techniques. Charles Johnson, the writer of this magical novel, wants the reader to recognize past and present events. He ties past and present through many different examples. An example is that the police attacked Santos without reason. This comparison is very clear and simple, so the reader can understand that the police brutality is still going on.

The intermediate passage of a 6-week slave ship crossing the Atlantic Ocean is known as "intermediate passage" The slave mortality rate of the ship on the Atlantic Ocean is about 30%, with up to 10 million Africans thrown into the Atlantic water grave Yes. By 1850 crews will be sent to Africa for at least 15 million slaves to arrive in triangular trade in Europe, Africa 32 US 32 and to seek slave slaves from Africa to send sugar to the Americas Europe Establish a three-legged trade network from finished products Raw materials and other raw materials from the United States to Europe will be finished products.

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The central aisle is an intersection from Africa to the Americas, and the ship carries the "goods" of slaves. This is called because it is the middle part of the trade route taken by many ships. The first part ("external channel") is from Europe to Africa. Then there is an intermediate channel, and "backhaul channel" is the last trip from America to Europe. The central passage took slavery Africans from their houses. They come from different countries and different ethnic (or cultural) groups. They speak different languages. Not to mention riding a boat, many people have never seen the sea. They do not know where they are going, or they are waiting there.

The central route is the stage of triangular trade and millions of secured people from Africa are being transported to the New World for sale. Navigation in the middle aisle is a large-scale financial work, usually organized by a company or investor group, not an individual. The duration of a voyage across the Atlantic Ocean varies from 1 to 6 months depending on weather conditions. An estimated 15% of African slaves die in the central passageway, historians estimate that the total number of Africans attributed directly to the mid-voyage is about 2 million.