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  The African Slave Triangle The African slave triangle was a trade route used between 1450 and the end of the nineteenth century. This trading triangle was called the Triangular Trade Route. It Lasted for three hundred years and in the process there were 10- 12 million slaves sold and traded. During the time of the trade slaves were obtained from along the west coast of Africa with the full and active co-operation of African Kings and merchants. The African Slave Triangle consisted of three journeys or stages:
 * The first stage of the Slave Trade is the outward passage from Europe to Africa carrying manufactured goods.
 * The second stage in the triangle was the middle passage from Africa to the Americas or the Caribbean. This journey carried the African captives and other ‘commodities’.
 * The third and final stage of the Slave Trade is the homeward passage carrying sugar, tabacco, rum, rice, cotton and other goods back to Europe.

Below is a link to a diary entry by one African slave and some comments underneath it: []

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The African Slave trade especially helped America becuase the slaves helped harvest crops for the Americas.
As a result of the help from the slaves they helped the econemy. It helped the econemy because of the increase in farm work and the selling of crops.They also made money on selling the salves to other countries. Helpful website: []

The continuing demand for African slaves' labor arose from the development of **plantation agriculture**, the long-term rise in prices and consumption of **sugar**, and the demand for **miners**. Not only did Africans represent skilled laborers, but they were also experts in tropical agriculture. Consequently, they were well-suited for plantation agriculture. The high immunity of Africans to malaria and yellow fever compared with Europeans and the indigenous peoples made them more suitable for tropical labor. While white and red labor were used initially, **Africans were the final solution to the acute labor problem in the New World**. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">From: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[]

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">This new trading system intimately linked the peoples and economies of three continents. European traders arrived on the African coast in vessels packed with European (and later Asian) goods to be exchanged for Africans; colonial plantations devoured African slaves by the boat load; and homebound ships were filled with slave-grown produce to slate the insatiable European appetite for tropical staples. It was a highly successful agricultural-industrial system (sugar 'factories' were the heart of the sugar plantations) which was quickly copied in other crops and regions; tobacco in the Chesapeake, rice in Carolina, coffee at higher altitudes, and, last of all, cotton in the south of the United States in the nineteenth century. **The cultural and economic consequences were vast. And everywhere the whole system hinged on the supply of Africans**.

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<span style="color: #ff0053; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Summary of why the Slave Trade was vital:** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">- slaves provided cheap labour to the colonies in the New World <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">- Europeans' appetite for things like sugar increased which meant they needed more supplies <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">- More slaves were needed to keep up with this demand <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">- White settlers and indigenous/native workers were not as useful as black slaves (wouldn't work as hard, expected wages etc)