Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.
Textbooks talk about the Triangle Trade: Ships set out
from Europe carrying fabrics, clothes, and simple
manufactured goods to Africa, where they sold their
cargoes and bought people. The enslaved people were
shipped across the Atlantic to the islands, where they
were sold for sugar. Then the ships brought sugar to
North America, to be sold or turned into rum-which
the captains brought back to Europe. But that neat
triangle-already more of a rectangle-is completely
misleading.
Beekman's trade, for example, could cut out Europe
entirely. British colonists' ships set out directly from
New York and New England carrying the food and
timber that the islands needed, trading them for sugar,
which the merchants brought back up the coast. Then
the colonists traded their sugar for English fabrics,
Mark this and return
Which quotation best supports the authors' claim and
purpose?
"Textbooks talk about the Triangle Trade."
"Beekman's trade, for example, could cut out Europe
entirely."
"What could the Europeans use to buy Indian cloth?"
"What we call a triangle was really as round as the
globe."