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- Project Slides 8-9 onto the whiteboard, which includes a map detailing the Slave Trade triangle and an explanation of the trade route.
- Provide students with further background to the Slave Trade (to be found in supporting notes).
- Explain the profitability of the trade and the contribution it made to the wealth of some of Britain's towns and cities including Bristol and Glasgow (the latter to focus on tobacco lords and the wealth arising from the trade).
- Indicate the role that the armies and navies of many countries in the world had in supporting the Slave Trade.
- Distribute Student Worksheet 1 and ask students to complete this, detailing what ships carried on each leg of the journey and why they think there would have been objections to abolishing the trade.
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- Foster an understanding of the background to the Slave Trade and encourage students to recognise the financial contribution it made to the wealth of Britain.
- Recognise the importance of politics and economy.
- Acknowledge that all countries involved in the Slave Trade used their armed forces to support the trade.
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- Slides
- Student Worksheet 1
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