June 13, 2026 Fort Moultrie, Sullivan's Island

29th annual Charleston Middle Passage Remembrance honoring our Ancestors who perished during the "Middle Passage," and "showing the presence of the Ancestors in our lives.

www.remembertheancestors.com

The Middle Passage refers to the part of the African Holocaust during which captive Africans were crammed into the cargo holds of ships like livestock, bound for chattel slavery in the Americas.

These living, breathing men, women and children who had families, hopes, dreams and aspirations, were stripped of any sense of humanity.

Historians estimate that 10 - 20 million Africans died from disease, starvation, suicide and murder during this torturous voyage.

Indeed, author and historian, Dr. John Henrik Clarke proclaimed, “If the Atlantic were to dry up, it would reveal a scattered pathway of human bones, African bones marking the various routes of the Middle Passage.”