SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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Slaves and rum
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Guns, ammunition, horses
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Raw goods such as rum, cotton, tobacco, and sugar
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Raw goods such as gold, silver, iron, corn, and potatoes
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Detailed explanation-1: -Merchants purchased raw sugar (often in its liquid form, molasses) from plantations in the Caribbean and shipped it to New England and Europe, where it was sold to distillery companies that produced rum.
Detailed explanation-2: -The third, and final, stage of the Triangular Trade involved the return to Europe with the produce from the slave-labor plantations: cotton, sugar, tobacco, molasses and rum.
Detailed explanation-3: -transatlantic slave trade three stages of the so-called triangular trade, in which arms, textiles, and wine were shipped from Europe to Africa, enslaved people from Africa to the Americas, and sugar and coffee from the Americas to Europe.
Detailed explanation-4: -Third Stage The third side of the triangle also included trade between the North American colonies and Europe. The colonies provided the raw materials that the Europeans needed to make the goods that they would then ship to Africa.
Detailed explanation-5: -These export goods included sugar, molasses, tobacco, cotton, furs, and other raw materials. The ship then returned to Europe to complete the triangle and the cycle continued. Each continent was undeniably impacted by this triangular trade network. Millions of Africans were captured and sent across the world.