USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1700, a slave cost about £3-worth of traded goods (cloth, guns, gunpowder and brandy). The slave ship then sailed across the Atlantic to the West Indies – this leg of the voyage was called the ‘Middle Passage’. On arrival in the West Indies, enslaved people were sold at auction.

Detailed explanation-2: -The most historically significant triangular trade was the transatlantic slave trade which operated between Europe, Africa, and the Americas from the 16th to 19th centuries.

Detailed explanation-3: -European ships would travel to West Africa carrying manufactured goods to which Africans had no access: worked metal, certain types of clothing, weapons. Once there, as payment they would demand people captured for slavery, who would be loaded onto crowded ships and transported to the Americas.

Detailed explanation-4: -The triangular trade was the three-legged route that made up the Atlantic slave trade. The trade traffic flowed to and from three general areas on either side of the Atlantic Ocean. These areas form a rough triangle when viewed on a map. They were in Europe, Africa, and the Americas.