Triangular Slave Trade Research Paper

The Transatlantic slave trade started across the Atlantic Ocean during the sixtieth through the nineteenth century. This trade is also known as the triangular trade, which connected the economies of three continents. There is an estimate of twenty-five to thirty million people including, men, women, and children were deported from their homes and sold as slaves. The Portuguese ships were shipping the African slaves on sugar plantations in Cape Verde and Madeira islands in the eastern Atlantic.
During the trade, some European countries had control over the different slave trades that was going on. The Spanish took some of the African slaves to the Caribbean for their rich soil. The French and English controlled over half of the transatlantic slave trade, and a large sum of the human cargo from West Africa. The Ashanti tribe is the largest tribe in the region of Ghana, so when the French and English came, they wanted war. Tribal wars were big when the settlers came and took over their land. The main products that the Americans traded to Europe were cotton, cocoa, corn, tobacco, and furniture. From Europe to Africa they traded weapons, gold, amunission, and clothes. …show more content…
Most of the slaves were dying for diseases brought over from Europe. Since the Africans was good workers, they were used to working in tropical climate. The slave trade alone had a major impact on the economic development of the modern world. Many Africans resisted enslavement and rebelled against slavery to be free. They were chained around their necks and ankle, to be put at the bottom of a ship for up to three to six months. The Middle Passage was famous for the brutality and for the overcrowded Africans. To the Europeans countries, it was all about making money, finding gold, and trade