The Middle Passage

The transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans affected millions of people.
The link below takes you to 4 stories.


Liverpool International Slavery Museum.


B. How did the trade in enslaved people affect the Caribbean, Africa and Britain?

The links below take you to 3 pages from the National Archive website. Each page has links to original documents from the time. From each page choose one document that you feel best shows the effect of the slave trade and explain why you chose it.

Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade.

Britain and the trade.

The Caribbean and the trade.

VIDEOS

Development of the transatlantic slave trade.

Olaudah Equiano's story.

Plantation life.

Slave religion, beliefs and traditions.

Revolution in Haiti

Runaways and Maroons

The abolitionist movement

Mary Prince and Sam Sharpe

A slave trader speaks

Mary Prince

Equiano speaking

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More links.

Fjolla's blog for Year 8 students.