EUROPE --- Raw materials from the Americas were shipped here to be manufactured into finished goods.
The American raw materials were transferred to Europe, so that there manufactured manufactured products.
MIDDLE PASSAGE --- Captive slaves were taken from the coast of Africa to the Americas.
The Middle Passage was the stage of triangular trade in which millions of Africans were sent to the New World as part of the slave trade in the Atlantic.
ZONG SHIP TRAGEDY --- Sick captive slaves were thrown overboard, since their deaths were covered by insurance.
The Zong massacre was the murder of approximately 142 African slaves by the crew of the slave ship Zong in the days following November 29, 1781. The Zong was owned by a Liverpool slave trade union that had taken out insurance of the lives of the slaves. When the ship began to run out of water due to navigation problems, the crew threw some of the slaves into the sea. Subsequently, the owners of the Zong claimed to their insurers economic compensation for the loss of the slaves. After the insurance refused to pay, in the subsequent trial it was ruled that in some circumstances the elimination of slaves was legal, and that the insurance could be claimed to be financially responsible for said deaths.
THE AMERICAS --- Slaves on plantations here harvested tobacco, cotton, sugar, and other crops.
In the Americas, African slaves were used as labor for the production of raw materials to meet the needs of European metropolises.
