Triangular Trade Route Europe Manufactured goods (beads, cloth, guns) The Americas Cotton, sugar, tobacco, molasses, rum Africa slaves
Triangular Trade Route B C “The Middle Passage” Triangular Trade Route
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Brazil 4 - 10 million Spanish Empire 2 - 5 million Carribbean 3 – 6 million North America .5 – 1 million 10 to 20 million people enslaved
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade “Chattel” Slavery in human history. is the ONLY period of “Chattel” Slavery in human history. Chattel = to be owned as property; i.e. cattle