Understanding the triangular trade, the Middle Passage, and African and European actors
European ships carried manufactured goods (textiles, firearms, alcohol) to West Africa, exchanged them for enslaved people, transported captives across the Atlantic (the Middle Passage), and returned to Europe with sugar, tobacco, cotton, and rum.
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