The traingular trade route was in the shape of a triangle. Goods from Europe were shipped to Africa, goods from Africa were shipped to the Americas, and goods from the Americas were shipped to Europe.
The transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation of enslaved Africans from West Africa to the Americas. European traders would bring goods to Africa to exchange for captives, who were then shipped to the Americas to be sold as slaves. The profits from the sale of enslaved Africans were used to purchase commodities, such as sugar, tobacco, and cotton, which were then shipped back to Europe. This triangular trade route connected Africa, the Americas, and Europe, with each leg of the journey serving to generate profit for the merchants and traders involved.
Cash crops were not only shipped to Europe. Cash crops were shipped to many different locations all around the world.
The main provision was to keep out Europe from the Americas.
During the slave days there was a triangle of goods being shipped. Europe shipped weapons to Africa, Africa shipped slaves to America, ans America shipped sugar to Europe. On one of the gun runs a European captain caught smallpox and brought it back with him.
Most of the slaves shipped to the Americas ended up in Brazil and the Caribbean Islands because they needed a continual influx of new slaves.
Brazil; the Caribbean
triangular trade route
This is how it happened the first part of the triangular slave trade was the voyage from Europe to Africa. In Africa European slave traders bought enslaved Africans in exchange for goods shipped from Europe. The second part of the triangular slave trade was the voyage from Africa to the Americas. This is often called the Middle Passage. This was the part of the triangle where enslaved Africans were forcibly shipped across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. On reaching the Americas those Africans who had survived the terrible journey were sold as slaves to work on plantations. The third and final part of the triangular slave trade was the return voyage from the Americas to Europe. Slave ships returned to Europe loaded with goods produced on plantations using slave labour. It could take slave ships up to one year to complete the entire triangular voyage
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It was the stage of the triangular trade where Africans that had been enslaved were shipped to the Americas.
It was the stage of the triangular trade where Africans that had been enslaved were shipped to the Americas.