What Was the Second Middle Passage? by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | Originally posted on The Root Thanks to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, edited by David Eltis and David Richardson, we know that about 388,000 Africans were transported directly to the United States over the course of the slave trade, which ended officially in 1808.
If something is uncanny, it is so mysterious, strange, or unfamiliar that it seems supernatural. If you hear strange music echoing through your attic, you might refer to it as positively uncanny. You can also use uncanny to refer to something that is so remarkable that it is beyond what is natural: as in uncanny abilities.. This adjective was formed in English from the prefix un- not and canny fortunate, safe.. The current meaning of English canny is careful and clever, especially in handling money..
This area of repulsive response aroused by a robot with appearance and motion between a barely human and fully human entity is called the uncanny valley.