The main export of the 18th-century triangle trade was enslaved Africans, who were forcibly transported to the Americas to work primarily on sugar, tobacco, and cotton plantations. This triangular trade involved three regions: European goods were shipped to Africa in exchange for enslaved individuals; the enslaved were then transported across the Atlantic in brutal conditions, known as the Middle Passage, to the Americas; finally, raw materials were sent back to Europe. This trade not only fueled the economies of European powers but also had devastating social and demographic impacts on African societies and contributed to systemic racism and inequality that persisted for generations.