SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE 13 COLONIES LIFE IN EARLY AMERICA
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England, Africa, Americas (including Caribbean)
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Africa, Americas (including Caribbean), Europe
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England, Africa, Cuba
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England, Americas (including Caribbean), Asia
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Detailed explanation-1: -They were in Europe, Africa, and the Americas. The Atlantic slave trade began in the early 1500s. It was made illegal in England in 1807 and in the United States in 1808.
Detailed explanation-2: -three stages of the so-called triangular trade, in which arms, textiles, and wine were shipped from Europe to Africa, enslaved people from Africa to the Americas, and sugar and coffee from the Americas to Europe.
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 transatlantic slave trade generally followed a triangular route: Traders set out from European ports towards Africa’s west coast. There they bought people in exchange for goods and loaded them into the ships. The voyage across the Atlantic, known as the Middle Passage, generally took 6 to 8 weeks.