How did European nations treat Africans in the Age of Exploration?
(Chp 16 Sec 4) Trading Triangle Europe gave Africa guns and manufactured goods, Africa gave the New world slaves that worked on plantations, and the New World gave Europe crops such as sugar, cotton, tobacco, and rum. Europe New World Africa Slave Trade The Atlantic slave trade began in the 1500s to fill the need for labor in Spains American empire. In 300 years it grew to be a profitable business and each year traders shipped hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to work on plantations. Middle Passage part of a three-legged trade network that sent raw materials from the Americas to Europe, slaves from Africa to the Americas, and manufactured goods from Europe to Africa. It was known to be a horror. Hundred of men, women and children were crammed into a single vessel. These slave ships ended up becoming floating coffins on which half of the Africans on board died from disease or brutal mistreatment. Asante a kingdom that emerged in the 100s and 1700s and