BBC World Histories - 08.2019 - 09.2019

Goa

Macau

Nagasaki

Slave coast

of west Africa

Manila

Batavia (Jakarta)

Cape Town

Spice Islands

(Maluku)

Dutch Brouwer Route

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SHUTTERSTOCK/BRIDGMAN

Transatlantic Triangle

Using the clockwise circuit of winds in the

northern Atlantic, from the early 16th century

Portuguese then English, French and Dutch

traders transported manufactured goods such

as textiles and weapons from European facto-

ries to the west African coast, where the ships’

holds were filled with slaves. Sailing with the

transatlantic trade winds to the Americas, these

enslaved people were set to work on plantations

producing cotton, sugar, coffee and tobacco,

which was then carried back across to Europe.

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MAP ILLUSTRATIONS BY SCOTT McINTOSH

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