LEGO Animation: The Middle Passage They Tried to Break
They built ships to crush human beings, and the people they chained refused to break. The Middle Passage is one of the most violent chapters in human history.
From 1500 to 1866, more than twelve million Africans were forced onto ships and pushed across the Atlantic. Almost two million died before reaching land. The Middle Passage was the center of the transatlantic slave trade — a system built to turn human beings into cargo. European traders kidnapped people from West and Central Africa, marched them to coastal forts, and packed them into ships built for profit, not survival.
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