Colonial Triangular Trade: An Economy Based on Human MiseryPhyllis Raybin Emert Applewood Books, 4 Μαΐ 2010 - 64 σελίδες Compelling firsthand accounts and primary source U.S. history documents underpin History Compass' popular Perspectives on History series. By the 1780s, about 97,000 slaves a year were being sent to the Americas on more than 800 slave ships. Most went from Africa to the West Indies, where they were trade for molasses. In New England, colonists used molasses to make rum. British merchants completed the triangle of human misery by trading rum for more slaves. This anthology of primary and secondary sources covers the slave trade and its abolition. |
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18th Century 20 Years Residence Abolition African coast African slave trade Alexander Falconbridge allowed American colonies arrived Atlantic Slave Trade Atlantic trade Barbados Black Cargoes blind Book or 20 Brazil British canoes Caribbean Carolina chains COLONIAL TRIANGULAR TRADE crew crops Cuba disease Documents Illustrative Elizabeth Donnan England English European Fathers by James following excerpts focus fourteen ells Gold Guinea Gustaves Vassa half a piece Hawkins Hispaniola human Ibid illegal trade irons Island James Pope-Hennessy land lbs Tob'o Liverpool Loango middle passage molasses Negroes North number of slaves Octagon Books Olaudah Equiano originally published overboard owners port profits purchase Residence in Africa rice Royal African Company sailors sell sick Slave Coast slave labor slave ship Slaver's Log Book slavery slaves on board sold Southern Colonies stowed Theophilus Conneau tobacco Trade to America triangular trade route Vassa vessel Volume voyage West Indies women York