Welcome to the Middle Passage Project of the College of William and Mary! The Middle Passage Project, founded 1995, serves to explore the history and memory surrounding the transatlantic slave trade, ...

Annapolis announced it will place a marker at City Dock to commemorate the lives of enslaved Africans who were brought to the city on the Middle Passage, the city announced. On Monday, the United ...

Mickey Love, Executive Director, Historic London Town and Garden, welcomes guests. Historic London Town and Gardens hosted its Middle Passage Port Marker Ceremony in remembrance of ancestors, ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - On Saturday, a special ceremony was held in Biloxi to honor the first arrival of enslaved Africans who arrived on the Gulf Coast and died along the Middle Passage. Local leaders ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - Deep, murky waters of the Mississippi Sound hold 350 years of history in each current. The Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Marker Project honors the millions of Africans who ...

PERTH AMBOY – This waterfront community has for long promoted its ties to America's proud and rich history. But last week state, county and city officials took time to recognize and remember ancestors ...

When Charles R. Johnson wrote the novel “Middle Passage,” which won the National Book Award in 1990 for the Evanston-born writer, he immersed himself in the musings of nautical adventurers: Herman ...

For weeks, months, sometimes as long as a year, they waited in the dungeons of the slave factories scattered along Africa's western coast. They had already made the long, difficult journey from Africa ...