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: -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-4: -The Middle Passage was the stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans were transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade.

Detailed explanation-5: -Ships forcibly transported enslaved Africans to the Americas – the third point of the triangle. Upon a slaving ship’s arrival in the Americas, the enslaved Africans were landed and exchanged for goods such as sugar, tobacco, rice, cotton, mahogany and indigo.