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  2. Triangular trade - Wikipedia

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    Triangular trade. Triangular trade or triangle trade is trade between three ports or regions. Triangular trade usually evolves when a region has export commodities that are not required in the region from which its major imports come. It has been used to offset trade imbalances between different regions.

  3. Atlantic slave trade - Wikipedia

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    The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas. European slave ships regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage. Europeans established a coastal slave trade in the 15th century and trade to the Americas began in the 16th century ...

  4. Slavery in the British and French Caribbean - Wikipedia

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    The French slave trade ran along a triangular route, wherein ships would travel from France to colonized African countries, and then to the Caribbean colonies. [6] The triangular setup was intentional, as France aimed to bring the African laborers to the New World, where their labor was of higher value because of the natural and cheap resources ...

  5. Middle Passage - Wikipedia

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    t. e. A marker on the Long Wharf in Boston serves as a reminder of the active role of Boston in the slave trade, with details about the Middle Passage [1]. The Middle Passage was the stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans [2] were transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade.

  6. Colonial molasses trade - Wikipedia

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    The colonial molasses trade occurred throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the European colonies in the Americas. Molasses was a major trading product in the Americas, being produced by enslaved Africans on sugar plantations on European colonies. The good was a major import for the British North American colonies ...

  7. The Sally - Wikipedia

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    [1] The Sally's route, cargo stores, and destination perpetuated the Triangular Trade patterns of the slave trade that included the Caribbean, Africa, and the northeastern United States. Sugar – a necessary ingredient in rum – was manufactured in the Caribbean by enslaved peoples, and, subsequently, exported to the Northeastern United ...

  8. Colonial South and the Chesapeake - Wikipedia

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    The slaves also completed the trading process known as Triangle trade. The south and Chesapeake's point of the triangle involved the import of slaves from Africa, and the exporting of tobacco and other goods to England. [6] The agricultural society affected which items southern colonists exported.

  9. Trans-Saharan trade - Wikipedia

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    Trans-Saharan trade is trade between sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa that requires travel across the Sahara. Though this trade began in prehistoric times, the peak of trade extended from the 8th century until the early 17th century CE. The Sahara once had a different climate and environment. In Libya and Algeria, from at least 7000 BCE ...