What is the definition of the Atlantic system?

Also called Triangular trade, it was how shipping companies made profit by taking slaves from West Africa to the Americas, American agricultural products such as sugar and cotton to Europe, and textiles, rum and manufactured goods to Africa. read more

The Atlantic slave trade is customarily divided into two eras, known as the First and Second Atlantic Systems. The First Atlantic system was the trade of enslaved Africans to, primarily, South American colonies of the Portuguese and Spanish empires; it accounted for slightly more than 3% of all Atlantic slave trade. read more