The Triangle Trade & “Middle Passage”
Raw materials (sugar, coffee, cotton, etc.) from the Caribbean & Americas sent to Europe
Finished goods (cloth, furniture, guns, etc.) from Europe sent to the African colonies
Slaves from Africa sent to the Caribbean & the Americas -- the “Middle Passage”
Rum a contentious “finished” product that fueled much of the slave trade and European and Euro-American culture (see Jerry Bruckheimer’s Pirates of the Caribbean as an odd cultural echo of this trade)