The Triangular Trade was a method of trade used by Europeans in the 16th to 19th century that involved trading goods and people on 3 continents.
It typically began in West Africa where the Europeans would acquire enslaved people by either force or by trade. They would then take them to the Americas where they would trade the enslaved people for goods such as ginger, sugars, hides and pearls.
These goods would then be sent for trade in Europe and then with the profits made there they would then come back to west Africa for more trade thereby creating a sort of triangle from West Africa to the Americas to Europe and then back to Africa.
