USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Weeden. Newport and Bristol, Rhode Island, were major ports involved in the colonial triangular slave trade. Many significant Newport merchants and traders participated in the trade, working closely with merchants and traders in the Caribbean and Charleston, South Carolina.

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.

Detailed explanation-3: -During the so-called triangular trade that ensued from European colonization of Africa, slaves were purchased in West Africa, shipped to the Americas to produce cotton etc. The cotton was then shipped to Europe and converted into textiles.

Detailed explanation-4: -Trade Network Captured Africans became part of a network called the triangular trade: First leg of triangle-ships carried European goods to Africa to be exchanged for slaves. Second leg-Middle Passage-Africans were brought to the Americas to be sold. Third leg-American products were carried to Europe.

Detailed explanation-5: -The destinations of slaves taken to the Americas were equally diverse. Slavers carried most of the Africans caught up in the trade to Brazil (approximately five million), with another 2.25 million sent to the British Caribbean, and about 1.75 million to the French Caribbean. Most of the rest landed in Spanish America.