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: You ignore the main point: no actual, specific triangular trade route has ever been found.  This term was a creative suggestion by a historian over 100 years later, one that apparently captured your imagination.  Africa was too poor at the time to engage in any meaningful purchase of goods.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 11:15, 2 September 2008 (EDT)

: You ignore the main point: no actual, specific triangular trade route has ever been found.  This term was a creative suggestion by a historian over 100 years later, one that apparently captured your imagination.  Africa was too poor at the time to engage in any meaningful purchase of goods.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 11:15, 2 September 2008 (EDT)

::And you ignore basic economic history. Africa was by no means poor - it was rich in the resource that drove the Atlantic system - the labor of enslaved human beings. How else would the colonies been able to grow the cotton and sugar? And you're evading the most important part of the argument towards the existence of "triangular" trade system - the fact that something had to be traded for that slave labor - often guns, but also other types of manufactured goods. Maybe you should read "Capitalism and Slavery" by Williams, or the introduction to "The Black Jacobins" by CLR James- or if you find those too difficult, the article on the slave trade in the Encyclopedia Britannica. [[User:AliceBG|AliceBG]] 11:29, 2 September 2008 (EDT)

::And you ignore basic economic history. Africa was by no means poor - it was rich in the resource that drove the Atlantic system - the labor of enslaved human beings. How else would the colonies have been able to grow the cotton and sugar? And you're evading the most important part of the argument towards the existence of "triangular" trade system - the fact that something had to be traded for that slave labor - often guns, but also other types of manufactured goods. Maybe you should read "Capitalism and Slavery" by Williams, or the introduction to "The Black Jacobins" by CLR James- or if you find those too difficult, the article on the slave trade in the Encyclopedia Britannica. [[User:AliceBG|AliceBG]] 11:29, 2 September 2008 (EDT)