Get familiar with your bull. A commonly-overlooked step in the bull-ride is getting somewhat familiar with the bull you're going to be sitting on top of. Spend a few minutes watching the bull in its pen, getting a sense of his aggression and tendencies. Watch the bull when he's ridden by other riders.
Definition of Middle Passage. : the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.
in North Africa and the Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 19th centuries. The Africans called the trip across the Atlantic Ocean Middle Passage.. Some five hundred years ago, ships began transporting millions of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. Slavery would continue for more than 200 years in the United States until it became a primary cause of the Civil War and ended only when the North was victorious over the South in 1865.