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The organisation of Trans-Atlantic Trade

      

The organisation of Trans-Atlantic Trade

  

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Gregory
The organisation of Trans-Atlantic Trade:
- Trans – Atlantic trade developed in 15th century between Europe, West-Africa and the America.
- The trade involved European traders, African middle men and American Plantation owners.
- European traders bought trading items such as cotton, clothes, spirits guns and gun powder; iron ware and glass ware to the west Africa. These were exchanged for slaves animal skins, gold and ivory which were brought from the interior parts of west Africa to the coast by African middlemen.
- Commercial transactions between European merchants and African middlemen took place either in the coastal parts suck as Elmina, lagos and Quidah which were built by European Merchants or on ships anchored in the rivers
- Of all exports from west Africa slaves were the most important item of trade. These were captured from the interior and transported to the coast by the African middlemen. At the coast they were locked in warehouses. Once the transactions were over, they were tightly packed in ships and shipped across the Atlantic ocean to the Americas
- In the Americas slaves were sold to the plantation owners through auction. Thereafter they became either domestic servants or workers in mines, cotton, tobacco and sugar plantations.
- The product of slave labour namely minerals and raw materials such as sugar, tobacco and cotton were inturn exported to Europe from the Americas.

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Trans-Atlantic trade was organized in the following ways:
Trans-Atlantic trade was conducted between three continents that is Europe, America and Africa. It was therefore known as triangular trade. It involved Portugal, Spain, Holland, Britain and France
From Africa, slaves were shipped to the plantations in the Caribbean and America while raw materials such as gold, pepper, ivory, hides, gum, and bee wax among others were shipped to Europe
From America raw materials such as sugar, tobacco and cotton were sent to factories in Europe for processing. The finished products such as iron ware, copper ware, glass ware, fire arms and liquor were shipped to West Africa
From the sixteenth century, slaves were the main commodity of trade
Cheap manufactured items were shipped from European ports such as Liverpool, Glasgow, Bordeaux and Amsterdam to middlemen in the west coast of Africa. The middlemen traded with the slave captors
The slave trade led to the growth of towns such as Accra, Lagos and Dakar
Slaves were exchanged for iron bars, guns, cloth and alcohol
The major ports of departure are Lagos, Dakar and Elmina
Gregorymasila1 answered the question on March 2, 2018 at 21:02


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