SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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a farm crop raised to be sold for money
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laws passed in the Southern states that controlled and restricted enslaved people
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a trade route that exchanged goods between the West Indies/Colonies, Europe, and West Africa
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a part of the triangular trade when enslaved Africans were shipped to the West Indies & Colonies
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Detailed explanation-1: -Triangular trade or triangle trade is trade between three ports or regions. Triangular trade usually evolves when a region has export commodities that are not required in the region from which its major imports come. It has been used to offset trade imbalances between different regions.
Detailed explanation-2: -triangular trade in American English noun. U.S. History. a pattern of colonial commerce in which slaves were bought on the African Gold Coast with New England rum and then traded in the West Indies for sugar or molasses, which was brought back to New England to be manufactured into rum.
Detailed explanation-3: -Merchants who traded in this way could get very rich indeed as American goods fetched a high price in Europe.It was called the triangular trade because of the triangular shape that the three legs of the journey made. The first leg was the journey from Europe to Africa where goods were exchanged for slaves.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -The transatlantic slave trade generally followed a triangular route: Traders set out from European ports towards Africa’s west coast. There they bought people in exchange for goods and loaded them into the ships. The voyage across the Atlantic, known as the Middle Passage, generally took 6 to 8 weeks.