USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Fully loaded with its human cargo, the ship set sail for the Americas, where the slaves were exchanged for sugar, tobacco, or some other product. The final leg brought the ship back to Europe.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Middle Passage was the stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans were transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade.

Detailed explanation-3: -The trip from Africa to the Americas was called the Middle Passage. In the Middle Passage hundreds of slaves were packed tightly into ships. Conditions were horrible. Diseases spread in the small spaces, and as many as 20% of Africans died before even arriving in the Americas.

Detailed explanation-4: -On the first leg, merchants exported goods to Africa in return for enslaved Africans, gold, ivory and spices. The ships then travelled across the Atlantic to the American colonies where the Africans were sold for sugar, tobacco, cotton and other produce.

Detailed explanation-5: -In similar fashion, African slaves forced to come to the New World unwittingly, became a part of the Columbian Exchange as their forced labors further entrenched European control over the New World.