Good morning everybody, welcome to BBC news, today we are going to explain to you how the slave triangle, and the Middle Passage specifically, worked. More precisely, we look at how terrible this period between the seventeenth and the nineteenth century was. In a nutshell, during the transatlantic slave trade, slaves were taken away from their homelands (in Africa) and they were then brought to America with some enormous ships. Many slaves came from various nationalities and their background consisted in different habits and cultures, so they spoke different languages. Therefore, it was more challenging for them to communicate in order to better understand each other's situation or organize a rebellion. So, why did the slave trade exist in
