What is Middle Passage?
[[File:Kenneth Lu - Slave ship model ( (4811223749).jpg|thumb|right|250px|{{Center| Slave ship model displayed at the [[National Museum of American History]] ([[Smithsonian Institution]])}}]] {{Slavery}} The '''Middle Passage''' the part of the [[Atlantic slave trade]] where [[African]] [[slave]]s were brought to [[the Americas]] on [[slave ship]]s. Millions of African people were shipped to the Americas over the Middle Passage.<ref>{{cite book |last1=McKissack |first1=Patricia |last2=McKissack |first2=Fredrick |date=October 15, 1995 |title=The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay |publisher=Square Fish |page=109 |isbn=978-0805042597}}</ref> Enslaved people were treated so badly on the slave ships that about 15% of them died during the Middle Passage. Even more were killed before they left West and Central Africa, when [[Slavery|slave trader]]s were trying to [[kidnapping|kidnap]] them and force them onto the slave ships.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mancke |first1=Elizabeth |last2=Shammas |first2=Carole |date=2005 |title=The Creation of the British Atlantic World |url=https://archive.org/details/creationofbritis0000unse |publisher=[[Johns Hopkins University]] Press |pages=[https://archive.org/details/creationofbritis0000unse/page/30 30]-31 |isbn=978-0801880391}}</ref> [[Historian]]s think that up to two million African people died during the Middle Passage.<ref>{{cite book |author=Rosenbaum, Alan S. |date=December 30, 2008 |title=Is the Holocaust Unique? Perspectives on Comparative Genocide |publisher=Westview Press |isbn=978-0813344065}}</ref> However, somewhere between 9.4 million and 12 million African people survived the Middle Passage, and arrived in the Americas as slaves.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last1=Eltis |first1=David |last2=Richardson |first2=David |editor-last=Northrup |editor-first=David |encyclopedia=The Atlantic Slave Trade |title=The Numbers Game |edition=2 |year=2002 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Co |isbn=9780618643561}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Davidson |first=Basil |date=1961 |title=Th