Triangular Trade Flashcards

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Effects on Britain

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-banking and insurance companies
-world leading sea power
-British merchants became very rich
-provided work
-growth of ports
-imported valuable products

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Effects on ports

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-important centre of ship building
-lead to growth
-large increase in town’s population
-Liverpool one of the largest ports
-brought lots of money to towns
-thousands were employed

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Effects on African societies

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-increase famine no young men to grow crops
-lost large numbers of people
-less powerful societies were destroyed
-increase in war/raids/kidnappings
-some states grew powerful and wealthy
-displacement of population

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Effects on the Caribbean

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-deep divide
-destroyed natural beauty
-destruction of Nate people
-damage to economy (focus on sugar production)
-cant be self sufficient
-destruction of culture
-lots died because of European diseases

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Slave factories

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-put in punishment cells for bad behaviour
-kept for months
-held captive
-branded on the chest after passed as fit
-kept chained up
-separated by gender
-walked fro many days to reach
-many Europeans died due to tropical diseases
-slaves were bought
-examined by doctors

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Conditions on the middle passage

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-unsanitary
-cramped
-food
-mistreatment
-sickness
-forced to dance

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Cramped

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-tight packing
-loose packing
-can’t stand up

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Food

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-European so couldn’t digest
-force fed
-sick

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9
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Mistreatment

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-whipping
-abused, violent

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Sickness

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-spread fast
-thrown overboard

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Forced to dance

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-entertainment
-embarrassing

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