slavery, condition in which one human being was owned by another. A slave was considered by law as property, or chattel, and was deprived of most of the rights ordinarily held by free persons.
The three-way trans-Atlantic trade known historically as the triangular trade was the Atlantic slave trade, for example the trade during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries of slaves, sugar (often in its liquid form, molasses), and rum between West Africa, the West Indies and the northern colonies of British North
Middle Passage, the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World.