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The Triangular Trade

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The movement of peoples form the old world to the new world happened between 1600-1900. Men and women around the world at this time were being transported to various places for various reasons. Some were involuntary, and on other occasions it was voluntary. The voluntary people are called free settlers and went too another county at their own will because of conflict in the country or like in Britain there was a lot of crime back then and people wanted to get away form it. Involuntary people were the prisoners and had to go even if they didn’t want to like in Britain they were sent to Australia because the prisons were filing up too much and they had nowhere to keep them so they had to transport them. The movements throughout this time …show more content…

Trading started when Portuguese were quite interested in the some of the mineral deposits that were found in Africa at the time. The trading of slaves raised with the discovery of the New World. The most common things to be traded were cotton, tobacco and sugar plantations that were in the Americas. The slaves from Africa weren’t necessary needed the Americans just wanted them so they didn’t have to do the hard work. The slaves from Africa mostly worked on the plantations and harvesting mainly cotton, tobacco and sugar cane to then trade with Britain. All of this happened until 1865 when the 13th amendment was put into the constitution stating the abolishment of slavery in the US. The slave trade had a lot of effect on Africa, hundreds of thousand men and women were taken from the prime of their lives and were taken from their families, it harmed the economies and the society and made Africa an easy target to be colonised by …show more content…

also the crime rate in Britain had raised dramatically and all prisons were full to the max, they even started to use some of the old ships to store the prisoners because all of the jails were full. The reasoning behind all of this crime is because of the industrial revolution not long before and the machines were taking over people’s jobs and all the unemployed needed to get money somehow so they resorted in stealing which ultimately made all the prisons full. The Britain originally sent convicts to the US but later decided just to send them to Australia. The first fleet set off in 1787 and arrived in 1788 in Botany Bay but soon after landing they thought that the surfaces were to soft and decided to move camp, and they ended up of what is now called Sydney. Around 40 years after the first fleet arrived, the Europeans wanted to expand from Sydney so in 1825 they arrived in Van Diemen’s land now known as Tasmania. Soon after convicts were sent all round

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