Handout
BBC

Bbc: Bitesize History: Industrial Era: Triangular Slave Trade: Interpretations

For Students 6th - 8th
Discusses the different interpretations that historians have had of the slave trade. It includes a video of Interpretations of the abolition of slavery, questions with answers, and a link to an assessment.
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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Travel, Colonialism and Slavery

For Students 9th - 10th
From Robinson Crusoe to the anti-slavery activism of Olaudah Equiano and the letters of Ignatius Sancho: explore a range of writing produced during an age of travel, trade and colonial conquest, in which Britain vastly expanded its...
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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Politics and Religion

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The Civil Wars and the Restoration of the monarchy, the Enlightenment or 'Age of Reason', and British colonialism: investigate the political and religious contexts of Restoration and 18th-century literature.
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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: An Introduction to Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded

For Students 9th - 10th
"Pamela", or "Virtue Rewarded" evolved from a collection of model letters into a bestselling novel. This article introduces Samuel Richardson's work and its exploration of gender, class, sexual harassment, and marriage.
Handout
History of American Wars

History of American Wars: What Caused the Civil War?

For Students 9th - 10th
A timeline from the 17th to the 19th century showing the evolution of the slavery issue in the United States, leading eventually to the Civil War.
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Curated OER

Anti Slavery International: Slave Trade: Captured African People

For Students 9th - 10th
Depiction of the Transatlantic slave trade.