SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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Africa
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Asia
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The Caribbean
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North America
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Detailed explanation-1: -The triangle, involving three continents, was complete. European capital, African labour and American land and resources combined to supply a European market.
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: -The Trans-Atlantic Trade was a triangular trade between European countries, Africa and America. The European countries purchased slaves from Africa, who were transported to America. In return, they got sugar and other raw materials from America.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the first 150 years of the trade, West Central Africa supplied nine out of ten African people destined for a life of slavery in the Americas. Except for a fifty-year period between 1676 and 1725, West Central Africa sent more slaves to the Americas than any other region.