Linkage Activity

     During the 18th century, there was a heavy flow of both goods and ideas across the Atlantic. From Africa came an almost inexhaustible supply of slave labour which was transported to the Caribbean and the Americas. Raw materials were exported from the Americas to Europe, where they were processed into manufactured goods that were sent to Africa and the colonies. Outside of the Tirangular trade however, the radical ideas of the Enlightenment (or Age of Reason) were reaching America from Europe. This precipitated the Great Awakening and sparked the passions of such intense preachers as George Whitefiled.