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		carbocation on April 13, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The age of sail, visualized I'm seeing much less Africa <-> Caribbean traffic than I would have expected due to the slave trade. Was the sampling random?

mturmon on April 13, 2012 [–]

Yes, I expected voyages from the "Triangular Trade":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangular_trade

Europe -> Africa -> Caribbean -> Europe with manufactured goods, slaves, and sugar/cotton/tobacco, respectively.

You can see what looks like round trips between Europe and the Caribbean, which probably were about sugar/cotton/tobacco.

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