SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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Asia, South America, Europe
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Mexico, North America, South America
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The Americas, Europe, Africa
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -They were in Europe, Africa, and the Americas. The Atlantic slave trade began in the early 1500s.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The triangle, involving three continents, was complete. European capital, African labour and American land and resources combined to supply a European market.
Detailed explanation-4: -Rum and manufactured goods taken by New World merchants to Africa were sold in exchange for enslaved people. These slaves were taken to the New World and sold. Slavers used the proceeds to buy mahogany and molasses, and the cycle continued onward.
Detailed explanation-5: -Mercantilism led to the emergence of what’s been called the “triangular trade”: a system of exchange in which Europe supplied Africa and the Americas with finished goods, the Americas supplied Europe and Africa with raw materials, and Africa supplied the Americas with enslaved laborers.