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Item 14 which statement is an accurate description of the transatlantic slave trade? africans were brought to the americas in a three-part system of triangular trade. slaves went from europe to africa, and then to the americas in a circle of trade. native american slaves were sent to europe in exchange for sugar and molasses. africans traded tobacco and furs for captured arabs whom they sold into slavery.