The Triangle
Liverpool, England • The Benin Region of West Africa • Richmond, Virginia
During the 18th Century, these three places reflected one of the well-known triangles in the trade of enslaved Africans.
Men, women and children were captured in West and Central Africa and transported from Benin to other countries. They were chained, herded, loaded on ships built in England and transported through the unspeakable horrors of the Middle Passage.
They were imported and exported in Richmond, Virginia, and sold in other American cities. Their forced labor laid the economic foundation of this nation.
Marker is at the intersection of East Main Street (U.S. 60) and 15th Street, on the left when traveling east on East Main Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
