- The establishment of European colonial empires in the Americas ledto an exchange that included European demand for a cheap laborsupply to work on plantations and in mines of the New World.- Often called the "triangular trade" because it linked Europe, Africa, and the Americas; the majority of slaves were exported from West and Central Africa.- Slaves were sent to the Caribbean to work on sugar plantations, to Central America and Peru to work in silver mines, and to North America to work on plantations cultivating cash crops, such as cotton and tobacco.- It is estimated that at least 11 million Africans were enslaved and sent onthe Middle Passage across the Atlantic to arrive in the Americas.- Enslaved Africans resisted: rebellions on the voyage to the New World were not uncommon, and in the Americas resistance took on many forms, including rebellion and fleeing. Maroon societies in remote areas were free communities of escaped slaves.

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