Transatlantic Slave Trade and Abolition of slavery (original) (raw)

Before anyone uses resources from this section of the website I urge you to read this excellent article from Marika Sherwood, one of the leading historians in Britain about Slavery and Abolition.

Equiano the Adventurer starter activity(3.1mb),
Equiano the Explorer(6.2mb)
and Equiano's journey to the Arctic (3.3mb) from the Equiano Education pack written by Dan Lyndon for the Equiano Project, available for sale here.
Lesson plan for the Equiano the Adventurer activities
Support the campaign to get a Blue Plaque for Equiano You can look at the fantastic collaborative work between Henry Compton School, Fulham and the Ridings School, Halifax demanding recognition for Equiano Blue Plaque campaign (the password is Arsenal)
Equiano Blue Plaque. (33kb) This is the worksheet which can be to write to English Heritage calling for a Blue Plaque for Equiano (33kb)
Thomas Clarkson (316kb) Dale Banham's scheme of work explores why Thomas Clarkson became so passionate about abolishing slavery and how he managed to achieve his aim of ending slavery in the British Empire
The teaching material for Dale's scheme of work is split into 4 units:
Unit 1: What changed Clarkson's life? Redemption Song, powerpoint 1 (221kb), powerpoint 2 (675kb)and Unit 1 (714kb)
Unit 2: The Clarkson Challenge powerpoint 3 (254kb), Evidence collection template (34kb), sources for the Clarkson challenge (381kb), Unit 2 (143kb)
Unit 3: How was Clarkson remembered? How has Clarkson been remembered? (50kb), Factor information cards (86kb), Unit 3 (85kb)
Unit 4: What would Clarkson be angry about today? Unit 4 (38kb),Citizenship Foundation - Ending Slavery: an unfinished business Excellent Free resources for schools about the campaign to abolish slavery, including a lot of very good activities about fighting slavery today, A timeline of Clarkson's life (358kb, recommended websites (35kb)
Abolition of the Slave Trade A lesson by Andy Walker asking students to evaluate the causes of the campaign to abolish the Slave Trade
Africa before the Slave Trade (39kb) Lesson plan from Dr Nick Dennis about life in Africa before the Slave Trade to be used with the Africa cards (623kb)
Amistad page from the Gilder Lehrman Center for the study of slavery, resistance and abolition
Amistad Webquest
Bradford and the Slave Trade A fantastic piece of research by Dan Moorhouse looking at the connections between Bradford and the Slave Trade from Roman times through to 1881, with hyperlinks to relevant websites
Dungeon Masters Article from the Guardian newspaper about the Merseyside Maritime Museum, which includes information about the case of the slave ship Zong
Elizabeth Heyrick one of the leading women campaigners against the Slave Trade
Granville Sharp detailed biography from the Brycchan Carey website which 'is concerned with the history and literature of slavery and abolition, and with black writers in eighteenth-century Britain.'
Middle Passage (19kb) A sorting activity for lower ability - students have to cut and paste descriptions under the appropriate headings
Middle Passage Test An online multiple choice test based on extracts from Equiano's autobigraphy, by Andy Walker
Olaudah Equiano from Brycchan Carey's website
Equiano the Sailor (285kb) This 'newsroom' activity is based on Equiano's experiences in the Royal Navy during the Seven Years War
Olaudah Equiano (495 kb) This is a Flipchart showing two images of Olaudah Equiano and a brief timeline. Students have to design a storyboard of his experiences
Olaudah Equiano webquest This is a webquest that I wrote to help understand the role of Equiano in the anti-slavery movement. The task is for students to write a website for Equiano
Ottobah Cugoano the writer of the first abolitionist publication in English by an African, from Brycchan Carey's website
Samuel Sharpe (161kb) The leader of the Montego Bay uprising, which kickstarted the campaign to finally end slavery in the British Empire.
Slave ships writing frame (23kb) This links in with the sorting activity above and gives a structure to a piece of extended writing. There is also an adjective box at the bottom to stimulate ideas
Slavery images The thousand images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery.
Slavery lesson An ICT based lesson using Interactive diagrams and Powerpoint where students have to investogate life as a slave by Andy Walker from the Educationforum website
Slavery project An ICT based project by Andy Walker . Students have to produce a website showing their understanding of what life as a slave was like
Spartacus the comprehensive 'Encyclopedia of Slavery' from John Simkin's website including entries about the British campaigners against the Slave Trade
Tobacco Task (730kb) John Siblon's excellent research project on the relationship between Britain, Africa and America through an indepth study of the Tobacco Trade, with many online resources, primary source material and an essay based assessment
Triangular Trade fantastic Flash based activities from the National Maritime Museum which allows students to make their own exhibition about the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Up from Slavery activities for students to find out about the Transatlantic Slave Trade from the Breaking the Silence website of the anti-slavery society
Zong (64kb) an excellent resource from the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum in Baltimore in which students reconstruct a trial about the case of the Slave Ship Zong