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Colonial Trade Mercantilism *Theory that a country can get rich from trading with its colonies. *Ex. England controls who and what the 13 colonies trade. Triangular Trade *The path that colonial trade took *Had three "legs" of a triangle between the colonies, England, and the West Coast of Africa (which was owned by the British) *Stop off islands of the Caribbean (also British owned) for the "leg" of the slave trade *Ships from New England carried fish, lumber and other goods to the West Indies. There, they brought sugar and molasses back to New England to make rum. Ships carried rum, guns, gunpowder, cloth, and tools from New England to West Africa. In Africa, merchants traded these goods for slaves. Ships then carried enslaved Africans to the West Indies to buy more molasses. Middle Passage *Second or "Middle" leg of the triangle *Journey of thousands of slaves from Africa to the Caribbean and then to the Southern Colonies *Can be described as "hideous, cramped, unsanitary, death filled, suffocating"
