The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Dark Chapter in History

• Geschiedenis
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 2

A New World?

• Time of discovery's
• Columbus
• 1492
• India or America? 

What is colonialism?

Colonialism

• Aqcuiring full or partial political control over another country
• Occupying it and exploiting it economically 
• The colonized need to be educated and can't be left alone
• America was colonized by -->

What is colonialism?

Indigenous peoples

• Colonized, killed, enslaved
• Diseases and warfare
• Ethnic cleansing 
• "The colonized need to be educated"
• Today still a lot of problems

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Why did white people want to purge Indigenous peoples of their traditional practices?

Name 3 things that happened to Indigenous peoples after America got colonized?

Task 2:

• Write an essay of one page
• Answer the questions: What are Indigenous Residential Schools? And why did they exist?
• Look up online Indigenous Residential School survivors/personal stories.
• Choose one of the stories and write about them.
•  Who are they? What did they go through? 
• What is their opinion about Columbus and the colonizers do you think?
• What is your opinion about Columbus and the colonizers?
• Bronnenlijst
• voor elke vraag 5 zinnen

What are we going to do?

• Recap
• Transatlantic slave trade + task
•  Middle Passage + task
• Task 3 
• Little game

Make a mindmap

• In groups of two
•  What do you remember from the last three lessons? 
• Write it down
• 5 minutes

Task 1

• Diary of a slave
• Hand it in
• Who is not done with it?
• Before this friday or I'm not going to grade it 

Trans-Atlantic slave trade

Why Africans?

The Middle Passage

• The journey to America for the slaves
•  Harsh conditions 

Olaudah Equiano

• Reading it together
• Mark the words you don't know or find hard
• Answer these questions: 
• Why did the slavemade people want to jump of the ship?
• What is the cargo on the ship? What do they mean by using the word cargo?
•  What does Equiano mean with "accursed trade"?
• Watching a video, mark the treatments of slavemade people that both the video and Equiano mention.

This is an extract from a book called The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself. It was published in 1789. Olaudah Equiano was born in what is now southeastern Nigeria and was enslaved at the age of about 10. Equiano bought his freedom from his master in 1766. Equiano wrote his life story as part of the campaign to end slavery. It begins with his childhood memories of life in Africa, and goes on to tell of his abduction and sale into slavery, and his life as a slave and eventually as a free man. 

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Task 3

• Your drawing of the Trans Atlantic slave trade
• Rank the treatments of the slave from 1 to 5
• 1 is worst
• 5 is least
• Write after every ranking why you put it there. Above and under the others. 
• Write in 4 sentences how the life of a slave was on a ship.
• Write in 3 sentences what you think about this? How do you feel after listening and reading everything?

Summary of tasks

1. Diary of a slave in the ancient times
2.  Essay about indigenous people and residential schools
3. Drawing of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and ranking of treatment of slaves on the boat.
4. In deze en de andere les in LessonUp staat alles over deze opdrachten.

Little game

Who am I?

Cards with slaves on it

Guess which slave you are

Write down 3 things you learned in this lesson.

Have students enter three things they learned in this lesson. With this they can indicate their own learning efficiency of this lesson.

Write down 2 things you want to know more about.

Here, students enter two things they would like to know more about. This not only increases involvement, but also gives them more ownership.

Ask 1 question about something you haven't quite understood yet.

The students indicate here (in question form) with which part of the material they still have difficulty. For the teacher, this not only provides insight into the extent to which the students understand/master the material, but also a good starting point for the next lesson.