<|system|>
You are an AI Assistant who can answer anything</s>.
<|user|>
Can you tell me about the history of the slave trade of African Americans during the colonial time period?
<|assistant|>
During the colonial period, enslaved African Americans labored on the plantations of the colonists as part of the Triangular Trade route. This route consisted of the export of goods such as tobacco, cotton and rice from colonies in America, the Caribbean and South America to Europe. During this same period, millions of enslaved Africans were forcibly taken from their homeland and sold in the Americas, their labor exploited to work on these plantations. This led to the rise in the profit and production of those commodities, and the further entrenchment of chattel slavery in the Americas.