Analysis Of The Second Middle Passage

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The "Second Middle Passage" was the second part of the middle passage when Africans were being placed somewhere that was unusual for them. African Americans were being forced to become slaves in America. This was a traumatic experience back in this time. These slaves, "marched over hundreds of rugged miles, tied together in "coffles", they arrived in unfamiliar and usually forbidding territory, where they were made to construct new plantations and work in cotton fields" (Brinkley, 2016).

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