Also known as: Commerce en droiture, Direct colonial trade, Droiture trade
Last updated: April 23, 2026
In simplified accounts of Atlantic slavery, the triangle can look self-contained: goods to Africa, captives to the Americas, commodities back to Europe. The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade sharpens that picture by insisting that direct France-colony trade was just as important. Once the enslaved had been sold and plantation labor converted into sugar or coffee, Commerce En Droiture carried that value to the metropole.
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Atlantic Slave Trade
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