USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The ships were then prepared to get them thoroughly cleaned, drained, and loaded with export goods for a return voyage, the third leg, to their home port, from the West Indies the main export cargoes were sugar, rum, and molasses; from Virginia, tobacco and hemp.

Detailed explanation-3: -The second, or middle, leg of the journey was the transportation of slaves to the Americas. It was nicknamed the ‘middle passage. The third and final leg of the journey, was the transport of goods from the Americas back to Europe.

Detailed explanation-4: -The table’s mahogany veneer, said Keane, probably derived from three-legged trade routes between Africa, New England, and the lands of Central America and the Caribbean, generally referred to as the triangular trade.