USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The first leg of the triangle was from a European port to one in West Africa (then known as the “Slave Coast"), in which ships carried supplies for sale and trade, such as copper, cloth, trinkets, slave beads, guns and ammunition. When the ship arrived, its cargo would be sold or bartered for slaves.

Detailed explanation-2: -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. Some slave traders from Americas sailed directly to Africa, not following triangular route.

Detailed explanation-3: -A brief introduction to the slave trade and its abolition On the first leg, merchants exported goods to Africa in return for enslaved Africans, gold, ivory and spices. The ships then travelled across the Atlantic to the American colonies where the Africans were sold for sugar, tobacco, cotton and other produce.

Detailed explanation-4: -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 leg of the triangular trade linking Africa to the Americas was called the Middle Passage. This journey across miles of ocean usually began in ports along the western coasts of Africa. That’s where African and European slave traders exchanged goods for enslaved people.