What can you see in this image?

What do you wonder?

Sunday, 06 May 2018

What was Slavery?

L.O:

1. Define what we mean by slavery

2. Describe the Atlantic Slave Triangle
Look at these three
images.

What items did people in

Britain want?
What is Slavery?

A slave is someone who is owned by another person. A slave

has:

No choice No freedom No money

What are all these logos symbols of?
Britain’s involvement in the slave trade made a huge amount
of money!
For over 300 years, slaves were captured along the west
coast of Africa, often with the active help of African
kings and merchants. Slaves were traded for beads,
textiles, brandy, horses, and guns. Britain was the main
slave trading nation after 1555.
Why were African Kings and Merchants willing to trade
people to Britain?
1. What do sources 3 and
4 tell you about the
slave trade?
1. What does Source 1 show?
2. How useful is Source 1 to a Historian studying the
Atlantic Slave Trade? (remember a source can be
useful and useless)
Name 5 countries where slaves were kidnapped from:
1. What happens to Africa’s
population in source 1, table
a?

2. What happens to Africa’s

population in source 1, table
b?

3. How do you explain these

figures?

4. What do the other sources

tell you about the impact
of the Atlantic Slave
Trade on Africa?
What can you see?

What do you wonder?

Homework:

Produce a classifying map to show the Atlantic Slave Trade:

A classifying map to show the Atlantic Slave Trade

Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3

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 Why was the slave triangle set up?
Have Need Have Need

Britain West Africa

Have Need

North America & the West Indies

What have you done well this lesson (PEEL,
spellings, completed work, presentation etc)
Can you give a specific example?

Check your spellings, punctuation, capital letters etc

How do you think you have done this lesson?

What target do you need to set yourself for next

lesson?
How will you know when you meet this target?
Sunday, 06 May 2018

What was the Middle

Passage?

L.O:

1. Use a circle map to

describe conditions on
board the Amistad
What was life like for the slaves crossing the
Middle Passage?
 Names Treatment

Amistad
Middle
Passage

What happened
Food to the Amistad?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXS6JAhMe1Q