In this lesson, 5th graders learn about the many societal structures that developed in colonial days, including the conditions for self-government in America, the free-market economy, and the slavery system. Background information for...

A brief but sobering look at the slave trade and the number of slaves in the New World in the 16th, 17th, and early 17th centuries. Slaves could be found from Nova Scotia to Argentina.

Although this is promoted as a teachers' guide, this page offers a little history and a lot of project ideas related to triangular trade that could be very helpful to students as well.

Discusses the different interpretations that historians have had of the slave trade. It includes a video of Interpretations of the abolition of slavery, questions with answers, and a link to an assessment.

This short but good article examines the state of trade as it existed in 1800 between Europe, the Americas and Africa. There is a nice discussion on the slave trade as well as the need for the Europeans to acquire more markets for their...

Read about the transit of Africans from their homeland to the American British colonies to work on plantations in the south as part of leg in the triangular trade.

A detailed look at the trans-Atlantic slave trade that lasted from the 1500s to the 1800s.

This is a map that shows the trade routes, principal ports, goods being traded, and the areas possessed by the British and the Spanish.

Easy-to-read, colorful maps that show the triangular slave trade routes from 1451 to 1870.

From the transatlantic slave trade to today's New Great Migration, learn about the major African-American migrations and how those movements changed the course of American history.

Salutary neglect was a long-standing British policy in the thirteen colonies which allowed the colonists to flout, or violate, the laws associated with trade. There were no effective enforcement agencies and it was expensive to send...