The transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans, 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.

WHAT TO DO

You can:

• tell the story of the triangular trade and what happened to enslaved Africans
• explain the link between this trade and Britain’s wealth (the Industrial Revolution)
• describe life on the slave plantations
• find out about slave resistance and rebellion (Amistad, Nanny of the Maroons, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Sam Sharpe, Paul Bogle, Mary Prince etc)
• find out how the slave trade was abolished (got rid of) (Olaudah Equiano, Thomas Clarkson, Ottobah Cuguano, Ignatius Sancho, Granville Sharpe, Robert Wedderbirn, William Wilberforce etc)
• design a memorial to the slave trade

HOW TO DO IT

Some ideas:

• well structured writing, either word processed or handwritten
• your own original artwork
• an electronic presentation (PowerPoint or similar)
• a paper display
• a story in comic form (using ComicLife in the Media Suite)
• music soundtracks linked to slavery, resistance or freedom
• a review of a commercial film about the slave trade (ask your teacher - we have a selection on DVD)

Video clips:

Films made by young people about slavery
Hostages

Websites:
African Empires - the site we used last year
West Africa before the Europeans

1. The slave trade.
Adventurers and slavers

Africa and the Atlantic slave trade
Britain and the Trade
The Caribbean and the Trade

Did U Know

Spartacus

Triangular trade

BBC

2. Abolition.

BBC a

Learning Curve
Abolition
Emancipation

3. The Middle Passage

Juneteenth

Terrible transformation

4. Resistance and rebellion

National archives

Jamaican heroes
The Caribbean and Resistance

Bad Times Just Around the Corner...

The Great War began in August 1914.

In the streets of Britain there was great enthuasism as soldiers set off to fight in France.

The newspapers talked of the war being over by Christmas.

The reality was very different, especially in Western Europe.

By 1916 millions of men were dead and two lines of trenches spread across France and Belgium. Meanwhile there was fighting in many parts of the world: in Turkey and the Middle East, in East and Central Africa, in Central Asia.... and at sea.

In 1916 two great battles took places involving Britain and Germany: on land, the Battle of the Somme. At sea, the Battle of Jutland in the North Sea.
How did these events affect local people?

Coming soon....

Why Hitler?

In 1918 Adolf Hitler was a wounded corporal in the defeated German army.
In 1923 he tried to take power by force in the city of Munich. He failed and was sent to prison.
But by 1933 he was the leader of Germany.
A year later he had total power. He decided the law. Anyone who opposed him was imprisoned or killed. He started building up the armed forces, leading to the Second World War, the most devastating war in world history. Millions - mainly civilians - would die all over the world and the Nazis would try to murder all the Jews and Gypsies in Europe.
But Hitler didn't come to power by force. He was voted in.

Why?

Did Hitler come to power because of his own actions, his own skills?
Or did he just take advantage of outside events that gave him opportunities?

Task 1: go to the The Rise of Hitler Quiz and answer the questions using a copy of Modern Minds. Type your name at the top of the page and print out your finished work.

Task 2: Do every stage of the Rise of Hitler interactive. At the end it takes you to other sites you can explore.

Task 3: Now answer the following question as fully as you can, backing up your argument with evidence. Did Hitler come to power because of his own actions or because of other events?

Sunstones, sacrifice, an eagle and a cactus ....

Exploring the world of the Aztecs.

Explore the Mexicolore site

Mexicolore kids' site

Slide show

Try the sunstone games.

Find out about the sunstone.

Explore the sunstone.

Sliding sunstone game.

Sunstone quiz.



The Early Aztecs.

The Aztec gods.

The Templo Mayor. and also here.

Numbers and writing.

Everyday Life.



More quizzes to do online and test yourself.

Aztecs

Gods and goddesses

Temple

Everyday life

Treachery on the Titanic!

Just when it was thought safe to sail on the sea.....
...it would seem that there could be Treachery on the Titanic!
Will you be one of the lucky survivors on the lifeboat, or will you go down with the ship?
Before you start you need to print out your boarding pass. As you speed towards New York complete the questions by using the information given or by following the links provided.

You will need the answers to complete your quest. This will decide if you live or die.
At the same time you will find out much more about what really happened on that fateful trip…
All links open in a new window so that you do not lose your place in the game.
To start the game go to
Treachery on the Titanic!!!

Where are they now?

Names on the memorial plaque in the top hall.

Here are some of the names of Farmer Road boys who died in the Great War.

ALGER George; BEVAN Lawrence Edward; BOLAM Stanley; BULTITUDE William Thomas; BREEDEN H C; CAMPLING Albert; CORBLE Albert Arthur; CORNWELL John Travers (VC); CROUCHER Alfred Horace; CHILDS William Charles; DODKIN RWG; FITZGERALD Leonard William; ISEARD Harry; LORING S T; MATTHEWS E O J; PERRY G A; PLEASANTS Arthur Joseph; STEVENS R R; STURMAN Stanley Arthur Bertram; PARTINGTON Reginald Charles; PARTINGTON Frederick James

What happened to them? How did they die? Where are they buried?

You can find out about them at

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Choose one name and start searching.

In most cases you will find where they are buried, where in Leyton they lived, where and when they died, their age of death and what regiment of the armed forces they belonged to.
Click on Search Records.

Enter details like this:

Surname: the name in capitals on the list

Initials: the first initial
War: World War 1
Year of Death: from 1914 to 1918
Force: unknown
Nationality: United Kingdom

Post your comments in answer to these and other questions:

• What did you find out about these young men? How and where did they die? Where in the world are they buried?
• Did any of these young men live near where you live now? (perhaps you could remember them when you next walk past their houses, if they still exist….)
• Did the information suggest any special stories? Which family had a double blow in 1918 and why are the bodies not buried?
• There are other names on the plaque. Try JOHNSON A, JACKSON H and SMITH A. Why is it hard to find these three ex-Farmer Road pupils?
• The name CLEVELAND R is on the plaque and there are two entries on the website. The same is true for PORTWAY C. In each case, why can we not be sure which is the Farmer Road pupil?

LOCATIONS OF THE CEMETERIES:

France: VILLERS-BRETONNEUX, BAILLEUL, THIEPVAL (Somme), PONT-DU-HEM, ARRAS, ENGLEBELMER, ETAPLES, LOOS, GROVE TOWN (Somme), CAMBRAI
Belgium: YPRES (MENIN GATE), NIEUWKERKE,
Egypt: ALEXANDRIA, ISMAILIA, GAZA

United Kingdom: MANOR PARK, CHATHAM