SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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a system of trade which connected Europe, Africa, and Asia
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a negotiated treaty that set up trade between Europe and Asia
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a three-part system of trade that connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas
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a system that allowed American colonies to send manufactured goods to Europe
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Detailed explanation-1: -Mercantilism led to the emergence of what’s been called the “triangular trade”: a system of exchange in which Europe supplied Africa and the Americas with finished goods, the Americas supplied Europe and Africa with raw materials, and Africa supplied the Americas with enslaved laborers.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Atlantic slave trade used a system of three-way trans-Atlantic exchanges – known historically as the triangular trade – which operated between Europe, Africa, and the Americas from the 16th to 19th centuries.
Detailed explanation-3: -Third Stage The third side of the triangle also included trade between the North American colonies and Europe. The colonies provided the raw materials that the Europeans needed to make the goods that they would then ship to Africa.