For this lesson, 5th graders learn about the many societal structures that developed in colonial days, including the conditions for self-government in America, the free-market economy, and the slavery system. Background information for...

This short but good article examines the state of trade as it existed in 1800 between Europe, the Americas and Africa. There is a nice discussion on the slave trade as well as the need for the Europeans to acquire more markets for their...

Read about the transit of Africans from their homeland to the American British colonies to work on plantations in the south as part of leg in the triangular trade.

This is a map that shows the trade routes, principal ports, goods being traded, and the areas possessed by the British and the Spanish.

Easy-to-read, colorful maps that show the triangular slave trade routes from 1451 to 1870.