Using Comic Book on the Mac, create a comic strip story of the chattel slave trade.
It can be the personal story of one enslaved African.
It can be the general history of what happened.
Find images here: Image library
What to include:
Life in Africa before slavery.
Capture and imprisonment on the coast.
The 'Middle Passage' - slave ship journey to America.
Rebellion.
Slave auction.
Life on the plantation.
Plantation crops: sugar, cotton, tobacco.
TASK 2:
The Slave Trade, how Britain got rich
and our world today.
Before 1500 England was a small northern European country most people in the world hadn’t heard of. Cities in China, Turkey, India, South and Central America and Africa were as rich as or richer than London.
By 1900 London was the richest city in the world and Europe was far more powerful than Africa or Asia. The world we live in was shaped then. It is a very different world from the one people lived in 500 years ago.
Was the trade in enslaved Africans the reason for this? If so, why? If not, why not? Were there other factors, too?
You will try to answer this and other questions to look at the link between their past and our present.
and our world today.
Before 1500 England was a small northern European country most people in the world hadn’t heard of. Cities in China, Turkey, India, South and Central America and Africa were as rich as or richer than London.
By 1900 London was the richest city in the world and Europe was far more powerful than Africa or Asia. The world we live in was shaped then. It is a very different world from the one people lived in 500 years ago.
Was the trade in enslaved Africans the reason for this? If so, why? If not, why not? Were there other factors, too?
You will try to answer this and other questions to look at the link between their past and our present.
WHAT TO DO
You must:
- tell the story of the triangular trade and what happened to enslaved Africans
- explain the link between this trade and Britain’s wealth
- describe life on the slave plantations
- find out about slave resistance and rebellion
- find out how the slave trade was abolished (got rid of)
- choose at least one of topics A,B,C,D to investigate
design a memorial to the slave trade
HOW TO DO IT
You are going to create a multimedia disk exploring questions connected with the slave trade and how Britain got rich. You will use artwork, animation, film, your own music, drama role play and writing. All your work will be put on a disk. You must include at least 4 of the following (it can be more):
- well structured writing, either word processed or handwritten (then scanned)
- your own original artwork including a design for your disk cover
- an electronic presentation (PowerPoint or similar)
- a paper display (photographed)
- a story in comic form (using ComicLife)
- a stop motion animation using stills
- music that you have composed (blues, reggae, soul, gospel….)
- music soundtracks linked to slavery, resistance or freedom
- a review of a commercial film about the slave trade (we have a selection on DVD)
- a short film that you have made (to get ideas go to www.runnymedetrust.org/vap for over 30 one-minute films on slavery made by young people)
- a role play that you create, practise and then film
Here are some links
Video clips:
Slavery
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