HOW THE EARLY TRADE CYCLE WORKED

COLONIES WERE MEANT to generate wealth and give the colonizing nation an advantage over its rivals. This economic boon came at the expense of southeastern Indian tribes and Africans, who were enslaved and imported to perform the grueling labor.

COLONISTS CARIBBEAN

flour, bread, corn, salted beef, wood, and American Indians captured and sent as slaves

CARIBBEAN COLONISTS

sugar, rum, molasses, limes, cocoa, ginger

EUROPE AFRICA

fabrics, clothes, simple manufactured goods

AFRICA EUROPE, AMERICA, CARIBBEAN, BRAZIL

enslaved people, who were sold for sugar

NORTH AMERICA EUROPE

rum brought by ships’ captains