Arrivee au college prevue pour 22h a 22h15.
A tres bientot.
England and Wales 2013
Le voyage du college Paul Eluard de Roncq en Angleterre et au Pays de Galles
Friday, 22 March 2013
The Triangular Trade
Definition
of the triangular trade
Triangular
trade, is a historical term indicating trade among three ports or
regions. Triangular trade usually exports
many kinds of
goods that are not required in the region from which its major
imports come. Triangular trade thus provides a method for rectifying
trade imbalances between regions.
Transatlantic
Slave trade
The
best-known triangular trading system is the transatlantic slave
trade, that operated from the late 16th to early 19th centuries,
carrying slaves, crops, and manufactured goods between West
Africa,
Caribbean or American colonies
and the European colonial powers. The
number of Africans shipped as slaves to America has been
conservatively estimated at 10 million. That number doesn't include
the thousands who died along the way. Some estimates have concluded
that 15 to 25 of every 100 Africans died on those voyages. The
practice of slavery had a history of hundreds of years. It was made
illegal in America in 1807, although it continued in small part for
many years after that.
by Fiona Verkyndere
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