Title: An Overview of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Headings: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
A review of the triangular trade with reference to maps and statistics
Why Did the Trade Begin?
Was Enslavement New to Africa?
What Was the Triangular Trade?
Origin of Enslaved Africans Sold in the Triangular Trade
Who Started the Triangular Trade?
How Did the Europeans Obtain Enslaved People?
A Multitude of Ethnic Groups
Who Has the Worst Record for Trading Enslaved People?
Conditions for Enslaved People
Survival Rate for the Middle Passage
Arrival in the Americas

Content: The guns were used to help expand empires and obtain more enslaved people (until they were finally used against European colonizers). These goods were exchanged for enslaved Africans. The second stage of the Triangular Trade (the middle passage) involved shipping enslaved Africans to the Americas. The third, and final, stage of the Triangular Trade involved the return to Europe with produce from plantations on which enslaved people were forced to work: cotton, sugar, tobacco, molasses, and rum. Origin of Enslaved Africans Sold in the Triangular Trade
Regions of Enslavement for the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Alistair Boddy-Evans
Enslaved Africans for the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade were initially sourced in Senegambia and the Windward Coast. Around 1650 the trade moved to west-central Africa (the Kingdom of the Kongo and neighboring Angola). The transport of enslaved people from Africa to the Americas forms the middle passage of the triangular trade. Several distinct regions can be identified along the west African coast, these are distinguished by the particular European countries who visited the ports used for moving enslaved people, the peoples who were enslaved, and the dominant African society (s) who provided the enslaved people.