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What does triangle trade mean

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a pattern of colonial commerce in which slaves were bought on the African Gold Coast with New England rum and then traded in the West Indies for sugar or molasses, which was brought back to New England to be manufactured into rum
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It describes the triangular trade routes between America, England, and Africa, England supplying finished goods and America supplying natural resources.
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