Cud someone explain the triangular slave trade?

Question

b/w Europe, Africa n America in the 16th century?

Answer 1

A ship would sale from, say, Bristol, England full of cheap trinkets and other trade goods and sail to Africa. These goods would be exchanged with the Africans and Arabs who traded in slaves for a ship load of slaves. Those slaves would be transported to the West Indies or America where they would be sold. The ships would then return to Europe with goods from the colonies like sugar and tobacco. And it happened in the 17th and 18th centuries, not the 16th.

Answer 2

Beginning in the early 17th century and continuing into the 19th, the Atlantic merchant sailors from Europe would sail a triangular route, taking their manufactured goods and trade goods (shinies)to Africa, trading them for the slaves the African and Arab slavers had gathered up, and transporting them to the Americas. In the New World, the slaves were offloaded and the ships obtained raw materials for return to European factories.
Initially an effective means of getting the products needed to the markets wanting them, the European nations (who had the whip-hand in the system) prolonged the situation by inhibiting competitive industrial growth in the Americas (keeping them dependant on the system for disposing of their tobacco, cotton, lumber, pitch, rice and other crops) and by keeping the slavers in Africa insanely wealthy with high prices for the slaves they were gathering up.
The triangular trade prolonged slavery in Africa and the Americas, and fueled the wars of Europe, and ultimately, the revolutions around the world in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Answer 3

As far as I know it was not a triangular slave trade but simply triangular trade: goods of industry and artisans from Europe to Africa, slaves from Africa to America, agricultural goods from America to Europe.

Answer 4

Ships load up with hardware (shackles, chains, etc., plus other non-slave things) and trade goods in the UK/Europe. Travel down south to Africa. Trade some goods, guns, etc. to the slave catchers on the Western coast areas. Slave catchers were sometimes Europeans, often other Africans. Load up slaves. Go across Atlantic to New World. Drop of slaves, trade goods, load up with lots of raw materials/crops/etc. from New World, go back to UK/Europe. Makes a big-ol' triangle on the map.

Answer 5

Europe bout the slaves from Africa. They shipped them to America.