Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage | SDUSMP is a lineage society dedicated to the memory, education, and historic preservation of the artifacts and landmarks of slavery in the United States and its economic, psychological, and cultural impact on today’s society.

SDUSMP is a non-profit, charitable 501(c)3 organization.

This society makes ancestral connections to the lives of more than 4 million enslaved or indentured men, women, and children of African descent in the British Colonial America and the United States of America.

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Any person is eligible for membership in the National Society of the Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage (SDUSMP) who is not less than eighteen years of age, and who is directly and lineally descendent from a man or woman who is of African-descent and was forced into slavery in the United States of America, including its colonial days, prior to the end of slavery as marked by the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution, effective December 1865.