Barracoon

by

Zora Neale Hurston

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Boats and the Middle Passage

One of the first things enslaved people experience after being kidnapped, the Middle Passage symbolizes the horror of the slave trade. Packed into shelf-like bunks into the hold, victims suffered overcrowding, terrible hygienic conditions, illness…

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