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Understanding Slavery

is designed to encourage teachers, educators and young people to examine the history and legacies of the transatlantic slave trade through digitised museum artefacts.

http://www.understandingslavery.com/

Breaking the Silence

 This site is part of a global attempt to improve teaching, awareness and understanding about the transatlantic slave trade and its legacies today. Breaking the Silence' is a UNESCO ASPnet education project, that links up to 150 schools in 23 countries.

http://www.antislavery.org/breakingthesilence/index.shtml

Black History 4 Schools

A leading website dedicated to the promotion of Black and Asian British history in schools. The resources are freely available and cover topics ranging from the Romans to the Windrush.

http://www.blackhistory4schools.com/

Brycchan Carey's website

English academic Brycchan Carey has dedicated his site to the literature, history, and culture of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Britain and Black British writers of the period, such as Ignatius Sancho, Olaudah Equiano, and Ottobah Cugoano.

http://www.brycchancarey.com/index.htm

Spartacus: The Slave Trade

This online encyclopaedia for schools provides a wealth of material on slave society and the abolition campaigners.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/slavery.htm

The Abominable Traffic

Learn about Cumbria's slave trading history and its legacy through this online resource, supporting teaching across the curriculum.

http://www.creative-partnerships.com/static/the_abominable_traffic/index.html

Slaves' Stories

This site follows the fictional lives of four Africans from enslavement through the Middle Passage to the plantations and emancipation.

http://www.diduknow.info/slavery/

 

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