The project team of university historians, an education academic, a school teacher and a specialist in anti-racism worked with 21 practising teachers exploring recent scholarly developments in the history of Atlantic slavery and enslavement, along with pedagogical approaches to anti-racist teaching of complex and sensitive topics.
The resources were developed by the participating teachers, who worked in small groups in consultation with the project team. The lesson sequences follow the enquiry approach to lesson planning in which pupils work alongside teachers to use primary sources to answer a legitimate historical question. The following enquiries are available:
- What did resistance to slavery look like?
- How similar were the lives of enslaved men and enslaved women on Jamaican plantations?
- How similar were West African nations between 1770 and 1807?
- How can we learn from personal accounts of the Middle Passage?
- What was the most significant link between Scotland and the Caribbean?
- What kinds of relationships did African nations have with Europeans in the Middle Ages?
- How similar were enslaved people’s rebellions and revolutions in the Caribbean?
You can access the materials for free at Teaching Slavery in Scotland Project – SATH
