The Mtangular Trade England, its American colonies, and West Africa each formed a 'comer" of a
triangle aimed at keeping all of England trade within its own territories. After
British explorera claimed lands in the Americas and established colonies, the
people living there grew crops, trapped animals for fure, and mined for metals
These raw materials were shipped to England, where skilled craftepeople used
them to create manufactured goods, such as clothing or ouna British
manufactured goods could then be traded to African Ningdoma in exchange for
enslaved African people Slaves were shipped from Africa to the Americas,
where they were put to work farming and obtaining even more raw materiala,
The practice generated immense power and wealth for the British Empire, and
spurred on its imperialist pursuite in America and across the globe,
Imagine you were living in England during this period What are some different
waye your fellow citizens might have reacted to these trading practices and the
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