The Middle Passage (1997)
• December 11th, 1997 • 0h 47min
Documentary
Overview
"Explores the 400-year era of the transatlantic slave trade, when millions of Africans were kidnapped and shipped to the Americas. Features interviews with scholars, oral histories and a dramatic recreation of the Middle Passage" (The History Channel).
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