USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -English ship captains in Africa then exchanged rum along with manufactured products like cloth, guns, and ammunition for captives.

Detailed explanation-2: -Africans were either captured in warring raids or kidnapped and taken to the port by African slave traders. There they were exchanged for iron, guns, gunpowder, mirrors, knives, cloth, and beads brought by boat from Europe. When Europeans arrived along the West African coast, slavery already existed on the continent.

Detailed explanation-3: -In African ports, European traders exchanged metals, cloth, beads, guns, and ammunition for captive Africans brought to the coast from the African interior, primarily by African traders. Many captives died just during the long overland journeys from the interior to the coast.

Detailed explanation-4: -Why was the trade route of rum, slaves, and sugar and molasses called the Triangular Trade? The trade routes formed a triangle since they were between America, Africa, and the West Indies. Of what did the Middle Passage consist? It brought millions of Africans to work as slaves.

Detailed explanation-5: -… 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.