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Middle passage
Middle Mid"dle, a. [OE. middel, AS. middel; akin to D. middel, OHG. muttil, G. mittel. ????. See Mid, a.] 1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age. 2. Intermediate; intervening. Will, seeking good, finds many middle ends. --Sir J. Davies. Note: Middle is sometimes used in the formation of selfexplaining compounds; as, middle-sized, middle-witted. Middle Ages, the period of time intervening between the decline of the Roman Empire and the revival of letters. Hallam regards it as beginning with the sixth and ending with the fifteenth century. Middle class, in England, people who have an intermediate position between the aristocracy and the artisan class. It includes professional men, bankers, merchants, and small landed proprietors The middle-class electorate of Great Britain. --M. Arnold. Middle distance. (Paint.) See Middle-ground. Middle English. See English, n., 2. Middle Kingdom, China. Middle oil (Chem.), that part of the distillate obtained from coal tar which passes over between 170[deg] and 230[deg] Centigrade; -- distinguished from the light, and the heavy or dead, oil. Middle passage, in the slave trade, that part of the Atlantic Ocean between Africa and the West Indies. Middle post. (Arch.) Same as King-post. Middle States, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware; which, at the time of the formation of the Union, occupied a middle position between the Eastern States (or New England) and the Southern States. [U.S.] Middle term (Logic), that term of a syllogism with which the two extremes are separately compared, and by means of which they are brought together in the conclusion. --Brande. Middle tint (Paint.), a subdued or neutral tint. --Fairholt. Middle voice. (Gram.) See under Voice. Middle watch, the period from midnight to four A. M.; also, the men on watch during that time. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. Middle weight, a pugilist, boxer, or wrestler classed as of medium weight, i. e., over 140 and not over 160 lbs., in distinction from those classed as light weights, heavy weights, etc.

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- The Middle P****age was the stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas as part of...
- Middle P****age (1990) is a historical novel by American writer Charles R. Johnson about the final voyage of an illegal American slave ship on the Middle...
- Look up middle p****age in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Middle P****age was a transoceanic segment of the Atlantic slave trade. Middle P****age or The...
- "Middle P****age" is a poem by Robert Hayden. Hayden first published the poem in 1945 and revised it in 1962. The American poet Robert Hayden started researching...
- Evans. Between 2005 and 2007 Immortal Technique began working on The Middle P****age and The 3rd World, the two albums that would serve a follow-up to Revolutionary...
- The Middle P****age (French: P****age du milieu) is a 2000 docudrama film directed by Guy Deslauriers about the trans-Atlantic voyage of black slaves from...
- The Middle P****age: The Caribbean Revisited is a 1962 book-length essay and travelogue by V. S. Naipaul. It is his first book-length work of non-fiction...
- Sal****er Slavery: A Middle P****age from Africa to American Diaspora is a book by Stephanie E. Smallwood and the 2008 winner of the Frederick Dougl****...
- were increasingly cited as a powerful symbol of the horrors of the Middle P****age, the transoceanic route by which enslaved Africans were brought to the...
- Death rates differed among regions in the Americas, though both the Middle P****age and the seasoning period were exceptionally deadly across the Americas...