Triangular trade, or Triangle trade, was a system that facilitated black slavery on a global scale. The system spanned three continents: Ships loaded with goods were sent from Europe to Africa. There, ...

For much of the English-speaking world, the term “triangular trade” refers to one thing only: the transatlantic slave trade. Many school history books feature maps with arrows linking Europe, Africa, ...

Among the events Karl Marx identified as signalling the “rosey dawn of the era of capitalist production” was “the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins.” From the ...

Select an Abolitionist to find out more... William Wilberforce, Thomas Clarkson, Granville Sharp, Zachary Macaulay, Thomas Fowell Buxton The extremely profitable trade in ‘goods’ was known as the ...

If sectoral trade flows obey structural gravity, countries' bilateral trade imbalances are the result of macro trade imbalances, “triangular trade”, or pairwise asymmetric trade barriers. Using data ...

Bringing together diverse experiences, this exciting panel of academic researchers, industry experts, and development practitioners from the UN and the WTO – debate the challenges for the practice of ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. China’s trade is naturally triangular. Set aside services (essentially a mix of ...

The outline of my presentation is as follows: questions, trade structure in East Asian countries, hypothesis, quality of trade goods in East Asian countries, triangular trade structure (TTS), and ...