The Triangle Trade and route of an enslaved person

Date Uploaded: 06/14/2024

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The "triangle trade" carried agricultural products from America to Europe, manufactured goods from Europe to Africa, and enslaved people from Africa to America. As this map shows, though, it is more complicated than a single triangle.

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Link

UNESCO. [Map of Slave Routes] [map]. Scale not given. 2009. UNESCO Digital Library. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000186636_eng. Accessed February 20, 2026.

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Citation

UNESCO. [Map of Slave Routes] [map]. Scale not given. 2009. UNESCO Digital Library. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000186636_eng. Accessed February 20, 2026.