An introduction to the slave trade.

This lesson was originally created to provide context on the slave trade prior to studying the poem ‘Limbo’. However, it could easily be adapted to be a History lesson.

The lesson introduces the slave trade to students using a images, a video, a map, and a writing task. It is designed to be an hour lesson (all links and resources are provided in the powerpoint), but I have found that it takes longer than an hour to get through all of the content and activities included. You may choose to remove/abbreviate some activities to suit the needs of you class, or it could be extended over one lesson.

Extensive notes are provided in the notes section of the slides to aid discussions and provide additional information for teachers.

This lesson has been used as a cover lesson, and it should be possible to just ‘pick up and teach’.