Triangular Trade Route Label

Atlantic World Triangular Trade Diagram — three large curving arrows connecting West Africa, the Americas, and Europe, with each arrow labeled with what flowed along it: (1) WEST AFRICA → AMERICAS: enslaved Africans, with the Middle Passage explicitly named and the small Brookes-ship outline shown with the line 'Remember.' (2) AMERICAS → EUROPE: sugar (from the Caribbean and Brazil sugar islands), tobacco (from the Chesapeake), rice (from the South Carolina Low Country), indigo (from South Carolina), molasses (from the Caribbean to New England rum distilleries — a New England-specific economic role); (3) EUROPE → WEST AFRICA: manufactured goods (textiles, weapons, alcohol, metal goods, cowrie shells from the Indian Ocean trade). A sub-arrow from WEST AFRICA → EUROPE shows gold and ivory and pepper. A sub-arrow from CARIBBEAN → NEW ENGLAND shows molasses for the rum distilleries; from NEW ENGLAND → WEST AFRICA shows rum (the New-England-specific triangular sub-cycle). Major West African kingdoms named: Kongo, Asante, Dahomey, Oyo, Senegambia. Banner: 'Approximately 12.5 million Africans were forcibly transported across the Atlantic between 1525 and 1866; an estimated 1.8 million died during the Middle Passage. Approximately 388,000 disembarked directly in what would become the United States; over 90% disembarked in the Caribbean and Brazil. Source: Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, slavevoyages.org' Style: solemn, factual, no minimization.