Question

How did the transatlantic trade system work?

Answer 1

Answer:

• The Atlantic slave trade, transatlantic slave trade, or Euro-American slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of various enslaved African people, mainly to the Americans.
• The slave trade regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage, and existed from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
• The trans-Atlantic slave trade occurred within a broader system of trade between West and Central Africa, Western Europe, and North and South America.
• In African ports, European traders exchanged metals, cloth, beads, guns, and ammunition for captive Africans brought to the coast from the African interior, primarily by African traders.
• The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade originated as a shortage of labour in the American colonies and later the USA.
• The first slaves used by European colonizers were Indigenous peoples of the Americas 'Indian' peoples until African slaves were available in quantity at affordable prices.
• All over Britain families benefited from the Atlantic slave trade.
• Bristol and Liverpool were the most important ports.
• Approximately 1.5 million enslaved people - about half those taken by the British from Africa - were carried in ships from Liverpool.