Approximately 2 million people died during the Middle Passage.
The Middle Passage was the crossing from Africa to America.
Africans were transported as slaves into ships to the West Indies. The voyage took from three to four months. People didn't even know where they were going or what awaited them there. They were left alone on the ships and many of them have never seen the sea before.
A few ships crossed the Middle Passage without any deaths, but many of them lost their slaves because of illness, suicide or murder.
