USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The trans-Atlantic slave trade occurred within a broader system of trade between West and Central Africa, Western Europe, and North and South America.

Detailed explanation-2: -The triangle, involving three continents, was complete. European capital, African labour and American land and resources combined to supply a European market. The colonists in the Americas also made direct slaving voyages to Africa, which did not follow the triangular route.

Detailed explanation-3: -It has been broken into two parts – the First Atlantic system which is primarily in the 16th century and has the Spanish and Portuguese trade as its focus and the Second Atlantic system focuses on the English, Portuguese, French and Dutch traders in the 17th century onward.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Atlantic slave trade used a system of three-way trans-Atlantic exchanges – known historically as the triangular trade – which operated between Europe, Africa, and the Americas from the 16th to 19th centuries.

Detailed explanation-5: -The vast majority of slaves transported to the New World were Africans from the central and western parts of the continent, sold by Africans to European slave traders who then transported them to the colonies in North and South America.