Black Peoples of America – The Triangular Trade

This is the name of the trade route used by European traders to exchange goods with Africans as slaves, transport slaves to the Americas, sell them, and ship goods from the Americas to Europe.

Since American goods are expensive in Europe, traders trading in this way may be very wealthy.

Since the three legs of the journey form a triangle, it is called a triangle transaction

The second or middle section of the journey will transport slaves to the Americas. This is called an "intermediate channel".

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Triangle transactions are used for trading. It is known as triangular trade. Because crops, manufactured goods and even slaves are traded in New England, the Americas or the Caribbean and Africa. The British ship first departed to Africa to exchange the New England rum as a slave. Slaves were brought from Africa to the Caribbean where most of the slaves died (known as the middle). In the Caribbean, slaves are traded as sugar and molasses. Then the boat returned to England and the rum made with molasses.

In the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, a maritime trade network connecting Africa, Africa and the United States was formed in the Atlantic Ocean through triangle trade of African slaves, sugar / molasses, rum. This maritime trade route not only enriches Britain and the United States, it becomes deep into slave trade. Europeans buy slaves from Africans and send them to the sugarcane plantation in the Caribbean Sea The sugar / molasses they produce are shipped to British colonies, distilled to rum, and shipped to colonies, and Europe Shipped to. In some triangular trade models, colonies occupy European position, trade patterns shift from Africa to Caribbean Sea, sugar and molasses to New England and rum and other products are sold in Africa for even more slaves It will be done.

Slave trade is connected to all major continents on the planet and is an important aspect of the first world trade. As the British colonies of North America are also involved, sugar and slave trade are known as triangular trade. The Portuguese sold Brazilian sugar to New Englanders. And the New England changed sugar to rum and bought alcohol for slave Africans across the Atlantic Ocean. British colonies in Africa, Brazil, and the United States (and also producing tobacco) completed triangle scores. However, "triangular trade" is misnomer because world trade also includes Asia. Europe's new addiction to Chinese tea and Arabian coffee boosted the demand for sugar. Until 1800, sugar consumption in the UK increased by 2,500% (96) from 1650. So, the first real world trade will be boiled with addictive substances - alcohol, caffeine, tobacco and sugar -