Triangular Slave Trade Research Paper

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The Transatlantic Slave Trade has deep significance in our world today. Also known as the triangular trade, it involved voyages from Europe to Africa, Africa to the Americas, and from the Americas back to Europe, (cite, link1). It can be broken down into three stages, the exchanged of goods for African slaves, the shipping of African slaves, and the departing of the labor back to Europe that was produced by the slaves on plantations. The slave trade had an impact both economically and culturally. Economically it exchanged goods such as alcohol, guns, tobacco, cloth and even shackles in exchange for the African captives, contributing to the development of Europe. However it wasn't always done equally. The Africans that were involved

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