The Triangular Trade

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As a child we were taught about Christopher Columbus sailing the ocean and finding the Americas. Pocahontas meeting the white man for the first time, going on to marrying and so forth. Slavery was a horrid thing and Abraham Lincoln passed a bill freeing them. Of course there was much more that was taught but I haven’t taken any other history classes since and my opinion had not changed much. Having this class has opened my eyes to a lot of other amazing and yet tragic information.
Having read of the association amongst the monarchy and government of Great Britain, I learned about multiple acts that were put into place. Across the Atlantic Ocean had been established a trade known as The Triangular Trade and it so happened that Colonial America

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