Choose the best way to complete this paragraph about the economic factors behind the transatlantic slave trade. The slave ships
brought in weapons and fabric from Europe and sold them to warlords and in ports of Africa. The slave traders in return sold the slave ship owners the captured men, women, and children. Industries in Europe depended on the that the slaves produced in the European colonies in the Americas. NextReset
Answer: The slave ships brought in weapons and fabric from Europe and sold them to warlords and <u>slave traders</u> in ports of Africa. The slave traders in return sold the slave ship owners the captured men, women, and children. Industries in Europe depended on the <u>raw materials</u> that the slaves produced in the European colonies in the Americas.
This paragraph describes what is known as the Triangular Trade. In this system, Europe, the Americas and Africa traded. The "Middle Passage," however, was the most horrifying part of this trade, as this was the section in which captured African people were sent from Africa to America to work as slaves, mainly in plantations in the Caribbean and the South of the United States.
