术语“中央航路”的详细信息

英译术语:

Middle Passage

汉语语境:

沦为奴隶的非洲人自从被迫踏上前往美洲的中央航路，就开始了非人的受奴役历程。他们在异国他乡当牛做马，低人一等。更有甚者，蓄奴者和他们的传道士规劝他们加入基督教，通过操纵基督教教义为他们的行为赋予了“神圣”的认可。19世纪初，黑人灵歌在美国宗教集会活动中发展形成，它吸收了白人赞美诗的部分形式与内容，保留了大量的非洲音乐特征。

英语语境:

Ever since they embarked on the road to the American continent through the Middle Passage, the Africans had started their life of bitter enslavement. After settling in the foreign land, these trafficked African people were treated as cattle, deprived of basic human rights. By converting the slaves into Christians, the slave owners managed to find a holy excuse for their slave-keeping policy through intentional distortion of Christian doctrines. In the beginning of the 19th century, the African American spirituals began to take shape in the religious gatherings. Imbibing both the form and content of the psalms of the white society, the spirituals have retained many of the characteristics of the African music.