I have also included a Key Word History Display to use when delivering this unit of work. At the same time, it exacted a terrible price in physical and emotional anguish on the part of the uprooted Africans it was distinguished by the callousness to human suffering it developed among the traders. L9 Black people in the American Civil War The Middle Passage supplied the New World with its major workforce and brought enormous profits to international slave traders. L7 William Wilberforce and the Abolition of Slavery The lessons are also differentiated and link to the latest interpretations of slavery from the BBC and other sources. Īll the lessons come with retrieval practice activities and suggested teaching and learning strategies, They come in Powerpoint format if there is a wish to adapt and change These skills are addressed in each of the lessons and allow students to be able to make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends and be able to create their own structured accounts and written narratives. This bundle addresses key historical skills: How did slavery show change and continuity throughout its history? What were the causes and consequences of the triangle trade on slavery? What were the similarities and differences in the actions of the slave owners? What was significant about the work of William Wilberforce or the help given by Harriet Tubman to the underground railway? These nine lessons are designed to cover Britain’s transatlantic slave trade: its effects and its eventual abolition. The resource includes suggested teaching strategies, retrieval practice, differentiated materials and comes in Powerpoint format if there is a wish to adapt and change. The lesson is enquiry based with a key question using a lightbulb posed at the start of the lesson and revisited to show the progress of learning.Students finally have to prioritise the worst conditions the slaves faced and justify their choices in an extension activity.Some differentiated key questions check their understanding through the lesson… Cartographic representations of the Middle Passage are nearly nonexistent but have great potential to increase understanding of the Atlantic slave trade as.The advise the director is being given by a slave ship owner, Captain Thomas Tobin, is without question incorrect. They then have to catalogue these conditions in a grid before trying to persuade a film director who is making a film on slavery that he is being misled about the journey.Students analyse how the slaves were treated and the conditions they endured.

The Middle Passage and its horrendous journey for the slaves is shown in this lesson through video, audio and source based evidence.

Middle passage