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They allowed trade, and also, they limited certain contacts. But, as they tried to prevent this, they have failed to do so.
Assuming your subject of the question is when we were trading with primarily African countries and Britain for goods we traded mostly animals, crops, cotton, and received the same in return for the most part (except cotton)
Also we traded for and in return of slaves
As a direct result of the transatlantic slave trade, the greatest movement of Africans was to the Americas — with 96 per cent of the captives from the African coasts arriving on cramped slave ships at ports in South America and the Caribbean Islands.
Wages were pretty low for the most part but women were being hired more and more
Establish cooperatives based on the principles of communal living