Triangular trade

How it is used

The Atlantic model includes enslaved people among the coerced transfers; actual voyages did not all complete a triangle.

Example sentences

1. The diagram uses triangular trade to connect European goods, African captives and American produce.

   The model summarizes connected flows rather than one universal itinerary.

2. Shipping records complicated the textbook's neat picture of triangular trade.

   Real trading networks can depart from the simplified model.

Common collocations

• Atlantic triangular trade
• triangular trade routes

Related terms

• trade routeA regular path by land, river or sea along which merchants carried goods between regions, such as the Silk Road or the spice routes of the Indian Ocean.
• slaveryA system in which people are legally owned by others, forced to work without pay and denied basic freedoms, or the condition of being enslaved.

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