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Mariners' Museum: Captive Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade Unit PlanMariners' Museum: Captive Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade Unit Plan
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Mariners' Museum and Park
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9th - 10th
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Mariners' Museum: Captive Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade

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Online exhibition from the Mariners' Museum chronicles the plight of African slaves from the beginning of their journey when they are torn from their homeland all the way to the shores of the Americas. Caught up in the lucrative triangular slave trade, many of them would die on the long sea trip. The work that these Africans carried out helped shape the New World. The legacy of this work is highlighted.

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slavery

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abolition of slavery, legacy of slavery, slave trade, transatlantic slave trade, triangular trade, african slave trade, european slave trade, middle passage, slavery in america, west african slave trade, impact of colonization

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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