Triangular slave trade
By: K
Definition and facts about the transatlantic slave trade & triangular trade.
Triangular trade - an external system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another. Indicating trade among 3 regions.
Transatlantic slave trade - between 25 to 30 million people, men, women and children, were deported from their homes and sold as slaves in the different slave trading systems. The slave trade regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage, and existed from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
Map of the triangular trade route
Definition of the Middle passage and how it relates to the transatlantic slave trade
The middle passage was the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies. It was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were forcibly transported to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade.
Map and information of country selected that received slaves from the transatlantic slave trade.
The effect of the transatlantic slave trade on the continent of Africa
The size of the Atlantic slave trade dramatically transformed African societies. The slave trade brought about a negative impact on African societies and led to the long-term impoverishment of West Africa.
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