Re: [nukkad] Serfing Quiz : 1

["Ravi Menon" <>]

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Molasses was the basic ingredient for Rum, the drink of sailors!
also the portuguese also traded in slaves for their colonies which is how a
Negroid like Pele played football for Brazil! and Eusebio for Portugal.
Ravi



On 3/26/08, Rohit Mansukhlal  wrote:
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> > I think the voyage retraces the "slave trade triangle": European traders
> > exported manufactured goods to West Africa, where they would be
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> > for slaves from African merchants.
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> > The slaves were then transported across the Atlantic and sold for huge
> > profits in the Americas.
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> > Traders used the money to buy raw materials such as sugar, cotton,
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> > metals and tobacco, which were shipped back and sold in Europe.
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> > Right.  Rohit?
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> > Carola
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>   For once this time Carola reveals her true gorgeous self on nukkad !
>   Few alterations, additions here and there and she is just right.
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> Add : Sothern coast of Africa to West Africa.
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> The slave ship leaving british coast used to carry drums of cheaply brewed
> liquor,
> cotton fabrics, handicraft items of little value, killing tools etc. to
> sell to an agent,
> usually a Portugese or Arab tough man and in exchange the English company
> will buy so many slaves. All these human cargo was chained and dumped on
> the
> filthy deck, made to stand in line throughout the voyage, no remission to
> lie down
> at night or no freedom to relax chains to attend to the nature's calls.
> Spending
> weeks overboard in the most beastly condition imaginable, the ship finally
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> on an American port, where the black cargo was auctioned off for a neat
> profit.
> In exchange the British ships procured mainly one item, Molasses (
> by-product from
> sugar manufacture ) and began homeward voyage. This molasses or treacle
> was in turn   used to manufacture liquor for the consumption of Africans,
> thus completing the triangular trade route.
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> This extra-ordinary trade became so much profitable that one British firm,
> Royal
> African Co. possessed a fleet of 249 ships !
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> Thanks Carola for the right answer, you score 90/100.
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> 2008/3/26, sonu sachdeva :
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> > > can you please provide the answer..????
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> > > cheers
> > > sonu !!!
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> > > On 3/20/08, Rohit Mansukhlal  wrote:
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> > > > Last year Britain celebrated the second centenary of prohibition of
> > > > slave trade in England and in all her colonies, principalities and
> > > > overseas territories as well as the end of this practice in north
> > > America.
> > > > To mark the occassion, last year on 21 st June 2007, a masted ship
> > > > Amistad sailed from the coast of USA on a voyage of 22,530 KM, to
> > > > be covered in 16 months. Until todate the ship is in mid-sea, it's
> > > > return expected in Oct. 2008. It's travel course is triangular, the
> > > first
> > > > leg being from America to UK, the second from UK to Africa and the
> > > > last run from Africa to USA. This three sided passage is to mark the
> > > > same routes that the ships navigated 200 years ago carrying slaves
> > from
> > > > Africa to USA.
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> > > > Now the point in the quiz is :
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> > > > *Why those ships used to undertake the triangular trips ???*
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> > > > Search websites, wreck your brains, recourse to encyclopaedia .....
> > > > option is yours.
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> > > > Rohit Zaveri
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