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  2. Triangular trade - Wikipedia

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    A triangular trade is hypothesized to have taken place among ancient East Greece (and possibly Attica), Kommos, and Egypt. [40] A trade pattern which evolved before the American Revolutionary War among Great Britain, the Colonies of British North America, and British colonies in the Caribbean.

  3. Atlantic slave trade - Wikipedia

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    Forced labour and slavery. The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas. European slave ships regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage.

  4. Colonial molasses trade - Wikipedia

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    The colonial molasses trade occurred throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the European colonies in the Americas. Molasses was a major trading product in the Americas, being produced by enslaved Africans on sugar plantations on European colonies. The good was a major import for the British North American colonies ...

  5. Middle Passage - Wikipedia

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    t. e. A marker on the Long Wharf in Boston serves as a reminder of the active role of Boston in the slave trade, with details about the Middle Passage [1]. The Middle Passage was the stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans [2] were transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade.

  6. Molasses Act - Wikipedia

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    The loss of the slave ship Luxborough Galley in 1727 ("I.C. 1760"), lost in the last leg of the triangular trade, between the Caribbean and Britain. North Atlantic Gyre The first leg of the triangle was from a European port to Africa, in which ships carried supplies for sale and trade, such as copper , cloth , trinkets, slave beads , guns and ...

  7. History of slavery - Wikipedia

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    The Middle Passage, the crossing of the Atlantic to the Americas, endured by slaves laid out in rows in the holds of ships, was only one element of the well-known triangular trade engaged in by Portuguese, American, Dutch, Danish-Norwegians, [49] French, British and others.

  8. Slave codes - Wikipedia

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    The slave codes were laws relating to slavery and enslaved people, specifically regarding the Atlantic slave trade and chattel slavery in the Americas. Most slave codes were concerned with the rights and duties of free people in regards to enslaved people. Slave codes left a great deal unsaid, with much of the actual practice of slavery being a ...

  9. Bristol slave trade - Wikipedia

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    The triangular trade was a route taken by slave merchants between England, Northwest Africa and the Caribbean during the years 1697 to 1807. [12] Bristol ships traded their goods for enslaved people from south-east Nigeria and Angola, which were then known as Calabar and Bonny. They exchanged goods produced in Bristol like copper and brass ...