Key learning points

1. The Triangular trade was the system of trade across the Atlantic.
2. Manufactured goods were transported from Europe to be traded in West Africa.
3. Enslaved people were transported across the Atlantic and forced to work on plantations.
4. Crops like tobacco, sugar and cotton would be grown by enslaved people on plantations and then sold in Europe.
5. As slavery had existed across Africa, European traders used this to take enslaved people to their colonies in America.

Keywords

• Colonies - colonies are countries or areas under the control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country

• Indigenous - indigenous people are the original inhabitants of a specific area

• Manufactured - manufactured items are items produced by a machine

• Plantations - plantations are areas of land on which certain crops were grown using forced labour

• Middle Passage - the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas became known as the Middle Passage

Common misconception