The Triangular Trade

The Transatlantic Slave Trade involved three journeys each with the promise of a full cargo and a large profit.  This journey was called the Triangular Trade as it roughly resembled the shape of a triangle.  In reality the journey was more complicated with ships travelling from all over Europe carrying manufactured goods such as guns, cloth, beads and alcohol to different ports along the African coast to trade for captives.  The ships then sailed across the Atlantic to the Caribbean and Americas to trade the captives for goods such as sugar, tobacco, rum, rice and cotton. Finally the ships returned back to Europe to sell these goods. 

Choose a journey, or country, on the map to discover what impact the trade had on Britain, Africa and the West Indies.