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Were there ever any 3-leg trips?
:::My mood stems only from the reflection that so many people have enslaved so many others. My gloom is lifted by the reflection that it was British Christians who abolished slavery first (around 1805?) and that American Christians could complete the abolitionist task a mere 6 or 7 decades later. Pretty good for a ragtag bunch of former colonists: we through off the yoke of foreign domination, fight a Civil War, and then free our slaves. For an encore, we win two world wars and defeat Communism. Oh, I'm not gloomy at all. What '''will''' we do next? I can hardly wait! --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 18:39, 6 December 2008 (EST)
:::My mood stems only from the reflection that so many people have enslaved so many others. My gloom is lifted by the reflection that it was British Christians who abolished slavery first (around 1805?) and that American Christians could complete the abolitionist task a mere 6 or 7 decades later. Pretty good for a ragtag bunch of former colonists: we through off the yoke of foreign domination, fight a Civil War, and then free our slaves. For an encore, we win two world wars and defeat Communism. Oh, I'm not gloomy at all. What '''will''' we do next? I can hardly wait! --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 18:39, 6 December 2008 (EST)
::::I will be uncommonly diplomatic and not comment.:)[[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 18:54, 6 December 2008 (EST)
::::I will be uncommonly diplomatic and not comment.:)[[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 18:54, 6 December 2008 (EST)
==Were there ever any 3-leg trips?==
#Instead of being a simple three-legged route for any one vessel, then, the triangular path from England to Africa to America was in reality a general arrangement for the movement of goods, credits, and slaves around the Atlantic world, often with different ships running different legs of the route. [http://www.answers.com/topic/triangular-trade]
#It should be said here that not all ships made this giant triangular trip. Many ships did no more than sail back and forth from America to Africa and vice versa or from England to Afria and vice versa. The description of the Triangluar Trade deals more with the goods as a whole. [http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/triangulartrade.htm]
See above two quotes. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 11:20, 12 August 2009 (EDT)