The former slave ship HMS Black Joke firing on the Spanish Slaver El Almirante
{“HMS Black Joke (1827)” by Nicholas Matthews Condy 1816–1851 – Public Domain via Commons}
Welcome back to school! We are going to dive right in this week with a few Monday Mix-ins. This week’s history topic is a grim one, but we do encourage you to discuss the slave trade with your kids at home during the history readings. We have a few extras to share with you today, and you can certainly find much more about the slave trade online if you want to, but we don’t recommend letting kids search this topic on their own.
VIDEOS:
The Passage – a 34-minute animated video about the slave trade and the journey of the Transatlantic voyage. While this is aimed at children and fairly mild (not too graphic), this is of course a difficult subject and some parts may be unsettling for young children:
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Educational videos about the slave trade – Suggested age ranges are listed for each video in this collection, but please preview the videos for your family due to the subject matter. |
WEBSITES:
Maps that relate to the Transatlantic Slave Trade
The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes – Highly recommended! This eye-opening animation maps the journeys of 15,790 slave ships in two minutes. This will give you and your kids a sobering sense of the vastness of the transatlantic slave trade and is worth watching.
Understanding Slavery Initiative – This is a rich and detailed website about a national learning project which supports the teaching and learning of transatlantic slavery and its legacies using museum and heritage collections.
Recovered Histories – This website gives an insight into the history of enslavement and those who fought to maintain and abolish it. It has a useful glossary, timeline, narratives from the time, and other resources.
