<P> However, because of several disadvantages that slave ships faced compared to other trade ships, they often returned to their home port carrying whatever goods were readily available in the Americas and filled up a large part or all of their capacity with ballast . Other disadvantages include the different form of the ships (to carry as many humans as possible, but not ideal to carry a maximum amount of produce) and the variations in the duration of a slave voyage, making it practically impossible to pre-schedule appointments in the Americas, which meant that slave ships often arrived in the Americas out - of - season . Instead, the cash crops were transported mainly by a separate fleet which only sailed from Europe to the Americas and back . The Triangular trade is a trade model, not an exact description of the ship's route . </P> <P> A 2017 study provides evidence for the hypothesis that the export of gunpowder technology to Africa increased the transatlantic slave trade by making it easier for Africans to enslave each other: "A one percent increase in gunpowder set in motion a 5 - year gun - slave cycle that increased slave exports by an average of 50%, and the impact continued to grow over time ." </P> <P> New England also benefited from the trade, as many merchants from New England, especially the state of Rhode Island, replaced the role of Europe in the triangle . New England also made rum from the Caribbean sugar and molasses, which it shipped to Africa as well as within the New World . Yet, the "triangle trade" as considered in relation to New England was a piecemeal operation . No New England traders are known to have completed a sequential circuit of the full triangle, which took a calendar year on average, according to historian Clifford Shipton . The concept of the New England Triangular trade was first suggested, inconclusively, in an 1866 book by George H. Moore, was picked up in 1872 by historian George C. Mason, and reached full consideration from a lecture in 1887 by American businessman and historian William B. Weeden . The song "Molasses to Rum" from the musical 1776 vividly describes this form of the triangular trade . </P> <P> The term "triangular trade" also refers to a variety of other trades . </P>

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