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Explain what the Middle Passage was , and what it was like

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The middle passage was the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the new world. The lack of sanitation and suffocating conditions meant there was a constant threat of disease. Epidemics of fever, dysentery (the flux) and small pox were frequent as well.
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