The term "triangular trade" is used to characterize much of the Atlantic trading system from the 16th to early 19th centuries‚ in which three main commodity-types were traded in three key Atlantic geographic regions: labor‚ crops‚ and manufactured goods (Figure 1). A classic example would be the trade of sugar (often in its liquid form‚ molasses) from the Caribbean to Europe or New England‚ where it was distilled into rum. The profits from the sale of sugar were used to purchase manufactured
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to 1750 increased and decreased populations of the Atlantic world due to the slave trade and flourishing economy. Also in the Americas‚ European colonists stopped mining for silver‚ and moved on to agriculture. Due to the new contacts within the Atlantic world‚ economies flourished as new crops and food spread around. The sole reason for the spread of such goods was due to the triangular trade system and the slave trade systems‚ in which Europeans carried voyages over the three continents of Europe
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Atlantic slave trade and the African diaspora Kingdoms of Dahomey and Benin Ayuba Suleiman Diallo Questions 1. a. What drove European involvement in the world of Asian commerce? b. In what ways did Europeans to an extent transform earlier patterns of commerce? And‚ in what ways did they assimilate into those old patterns? 2. How did the Portuguese‚ Spanish‚ Dutch‚ and British initiatives in Asia differ from one another? 3. What was the world historical importance of the silver trade? 4. Describe
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"Middle Passage" was the journey of slave trading ships from the west coast of Africa‚ where the slaves were obtained‚ across the Atlantic‚ where they were sold or‚ in some cases‚ traded for goods such as molasses‚ which was used in the making of rum. However‚ this voyage has come to be remembered for much more than simply the transport and sale of slaves. The Middle Passage was the longest‚ hardest‚ most dangerous‚ and also most horrific part of the journey of the slave ships. With extremely tightly packed
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effects that led to important historical events. Why was the African Slave trade such a massive enterprise? Around 1500‚ people in the Americas began needing cheap labor so they started using enslaved Africans on their farms and plantations. The spread of Islam into Africa began causing an increase in slavery and also slave trade. Between 650 and 1600‚ Muslims transported about 17 million Africans to North America and Southwest Asia. Slaves did have some legal rights and an opportunity
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slavery and slave trade in 1833. This act was important since it allowed freedom for all slave under the British Empire. This act was followed by intense operations by the abolitionists. For example‚ Granville’s campaign ranging awareness via his promotion of the court case of a slave called James Strong who he assisted in winning his court case. Granville argued that slavery was not existence in Britain. The judges in the court case agreed with him which in other words meant that the slaves in Britain
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they relied heavily on the Indians’ resources and techniques. Spain and Portugal wanted territory and took the Indians’ land and brought Africans to work on it. The Europeans had horses and dogs which made it easier to obtain territories and keep slaves inferior. In the beginning‚
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of the time‚ black people were used as slaves‚ but there were exceptions. At the time‚ America‚ Britain and France were mainly white countries‚ so racism was huge at the time. Names were used to insult and discriminate each other and violence was used a lot. But when slavery was first introduced‚ white people saw them as the equivalent of animals and they had no rights what so ever. But after a few years when slavery was used in mass amounts and the slaves had repopulated‚ the children were born
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one could take to communicate with other places. As soon as new connections were made‚ trade and communications difficulty decreased. For example‚ the Indian Ocean trade routes gave Europe the ability to reach “hard-to-get” areas and even connected them with the new world which in turn increased trade happening between the two regions. Over all‚ after 1500 CE‚ there were more routes and ways to be able to trade and communicate effectively. This also ended up connecting Europe and Asia which did all
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The Transatlantic Slave Trade The transatlantic slave trade influenced all the aspects of the white Americans and African Americans’ life in the 18th century because it became the significant social and economic phenomenon in the history of the country (Dramaturgy Packet 2015‚ 17-18). In her play The Liquid Plain‚ Naomi Wallace discussed the idea of the transatlantic slave trade from the personal perspective of several characters in a vivid metaphorical language (Wallace 2013‚ 54). Thus‚ the concept
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