The Crossing of the Ocean The crossing of the Atlantic Ocean is a very important phase of the Middle Passage. ... Naipaul that: "nothing was created in the West Indies" (taken from The Middle Passage, 1963, p.28). ... The meaning of Middle Passage is not confined only to the slave ship; it invades the consciousness and so remains in every mind, even after the landing in America. ... Equiano vividly recounts the shock and isolation that he felt during the Middle Passage to Barbados and his fear that the European slavers would eat him. ... These two works were the only two of thei...

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Egyptian mismanagement of the economy and military and a continually more strained relationship with France who had held considerable sway since the Napoleonic era in Egypt created an opportunity for England to become more important in Egyptian affairs which the English desired because of the importance of the Suez Canal as an eastern trade route (Porter, p. 92-93). ... The British had been present in Nigeria since the middle of the 19th century with many small companies involved in the palm oil and coco industries in 1879 these small companies were merged together through the leadership of...

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The introduction of sugar cultivation for the eastern Mediterranean to Madeira and the Canary Islands hastened the adaptation of Iberian institutions and social forms to the special requirements of a colonial economic environment. ... These groups were as follows: The elites, merchants, the middle groups, and the poor. ... The next social group was the Middle Groups. At the top of the Middle Groups were manufacturers, master artisans, retail merchants, and priests. Members of the Middle Classes routinely imitated elite practice and attempted to protect their status and income by creating insti...

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Toomer was a middle-classed and educated mixed-race man, making it highly probable that he would have been called this slur as well, as he did not want to be 'confined' by his race as a Negro man. ...

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The trans-Atlantic slave trade was the largest long-distance coerced movement of people in history and, prior to the mid-nineteenth century, formed the major demographic well-spring for the re-peopling of the Americas following the collapse of the Amerindian population. Cumulatively, as late as 1820, nearly four Africans had crossed the Atlantic for every European, and, given the differences in the sex ratios between European and African migrant streams, about four out of every five females that traversed the Atlantic were from Africa. From the late fifteenth century, the Atlantic O...

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