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middle passage

the passage across the Atlantic from W Africa to the West Indies or America that was the route of the former slave trade

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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