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Captive Passage
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Completing the triangular trade route, the ships that had carried Africans to the
Americas returned to Europe with the products of slave labor. Sugar was the most
common cargo, particularly from the Caribbean Islands. Rum and molasses, which
are made from sugar, were shipped in large quantities as well. Ships returning from
North America carried tobacco, rice, and, beginning in the 1780s, cotton. Coffee,
cocoa, spices, mahogany, and indigo were regular return cargoes from the West
Indies and South America.
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