What was the Middle Passage?

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The Middle Passage was the forced sea crossing that carried enslaved Africans to the Americas, the middle leg of the triangle. It lasted from several weeks to a few months and was a period of great fear, danger and loss for those aboard. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, as described by the National Endowment for the Humanities, records about 12.5 million people put aboard ships and about 10.7 million survivors between 1526 and 1866; these are estimates.