Title: Middle Passage of the Atlantic Slave Trade - History Crunch - History Articles, Summaries, Biographies, Resources and More
Headings: MIDDLE PASSAGE OF THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE
MIDDLE PASSAGE OF THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE
ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE
TRADE TRIANGLE
CONDITIONS OF THE MIDDLE PASSAGE
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Content: The early trade in slaves proved so profitable for slave owners in the New World that the practise expanded in 18th and 19th centuries. TRADE TRIANGLE
As stated above, the Middle Passage was a major route of the Trade Triangle . The Trade Triangle is the term used by historians to refer to the form of trade that occurred across the Atlantic Ocean during much of the Age of Exploration and the years that followed. In general, it was a set of three routes that saw goods and people travel between Europe, Africa and the Americas. European traders exported manufactured goods (metal tools, textiles, tobacco, beads, etc.) to the societies of west coast Africa in exchange for African slaves. The European goods were manufactured in European factories and shops. Next, the African slaves were put aboard European slave ships and taken to the Americas to be sold for huge profits. Here the slaves would be put to work on plantations in order to harvest raw materials. The final stage of the Trade Triangle involved European traders taking the harvested raw materials from the plantations back to Europe where they were processed into goods in European factories.