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| | Stephen Vincent: New Orleans = the new Middle Passage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | The "Middle Passage" was the journey of slave trading ships from the west coast of Africa, where the slaves were obtained, across the Atlantic, where they were sold or, in some cases, traded for goods such as molasses, which was used in the making of rum. |
 | | The Middle Passage was the longest, hardest, most dangerous, and also most horrific part of the journey of the slave ships. |
 | | The current New Orleans' version of the Middle Passage, however, is done not to arrive in New Orleans to sell slaves, but to banish them. |
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