The "Middle Passage" refers to the second leg in a triangular trading
route that resulted in massive numbers of Africans being transported to
America as slaves. The "Second Middle Passage" is a phrase coined to
refer to the mass movement westward of slaves from the southern United
States.
In essence, the second middle passage can be thought of as
the second of two periods during which large numbers of African slaves
were moved to environments that were very alien to them - a difficult
experience that even further exacerbated the difficulties of slave life.
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