The area where whites and Indians met and traded on a fairly equal basis-also enjoying such activities as giving gifts, smoking pipes, and drinking rum-was called the middle passage.

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The Middle Passage refers to the part of the transatlantic slave trade where enslaved Africans were forcibly transported across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. The area where whites and Indians met and traded on a fairly equal basis is not called the Middle Passage.

The Area Where Whites and Indians Met and Traded on a Fairly