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Middle Passage (1780s)

On the Haiti and Kenya independence map as “The Middle Passage”

1780s — The crossing from West and West-Central Africa to Saint-Domingue took six to ten weeks, and roughly one captive in ten died at sea. In the late 1780s the ships landed about 30,000 survivors a year in the colony. Remember them.

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Site of memory
Chapter
Slavery in colonial Saint-Domingue (chapter 1 of Haiti and Kenya independence)
Atlas
Two Roads to Independence: Haiti 1789–1838 and Kenya 1895–1978
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Map showing Middle Passage (1780s), site of memory in Two Roads to Independence: Haiti 1789–1838 and Kenya 1895–1978
SITE OF MEMORY · TWO ROADS TO INDEPENDENCE: HAITI 1789–1838 AND KENYA 1895–1978

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