Curated OER
Many Passages: The Voyage of the Slave Ship Brookes
Examine three perspectives of the slave trade - captain, sailor, and captive - through this collaborative analysis activity. Small groups study one perspective with a primary source to analyze. They discern what is a historical fact and...
Smithsonian Institution
Braiding Rhythms: The Role of Bell Patterns in West African and Afro-Caribbean Music
Africans transported to the Caribbean as part of the transatlantic slave trade brought with them a rich tradition of music and dance. Four lessons teach young musicians the rumba clave rhythm, cascara rhythm, and the 6/8 bell patterns...
Carolina K-12
Colonialism and American Foundations Sample Test Questions
What was the main cause of European colonization in America? How did Thomas Paine's Common Sense play a role in the establishment of the United States? What was the trans-Atlantic slave trade? These are just a few of the many questions...
Curated OER
Chart of the Voyages of the Slave Ship Brookes
In this primary source analysis instructional activity, learners analyze the chart of voyages for the slave ship Brookes. Students respond to 2 short answer questions based on the information in the chart.
Curated OER
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
Students explain the continuum of history by studying the former slave ports including but not limited to, New Orleans, Charleston, and Richmond. They study each port's history, and investigate its culture today.
Curated OER
MAPPING THE BLACK ATLANTIC
Students examine the geographic characteristics of Western and Central Africa, the impact of geography on settlement patterns, cultural traits, and trade. They compare political, social, economic, and religious systems of...
Other
Rothman and Burdumy: Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Visualization
Time-lapsed heatmap visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade. Data from Transatlantic Slave Trade Database mapped in a three-part depiction of voyages, ship disembarkment location and ship arrival location in the Americas.
Digital History
Digital History: The Slave Trade's Significance
An explanation of the significance of the slave trade in the colonial economy as well as in Europe. See why the slave trade stimulated manufacturing and resulted in the transatlantic triangular trade.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The African American Migration Story
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.
Then Again
Then Again: Web Chron: Liberia Is Founded by Freed Slaves
Read how the nation of Liberia was founded by freed slaves as a result of the end of the transatlantic slave trade and the efforts of the American Colonization Society (ACS).
BBC
Bbc: The Triangular Trade
Approximately 6 million Africans were taken as slaves to the Americas. Follow the steps of the Triangular Slave Trade with an accompanying map. The map shows which goods and services were traded between the countries.
Siteseen
Siteseen: Land of the Brave: Triangular Trade
Article on triangular trade in Colonial America explores routes (England to Africa to the Americas and back to England), the exchange of goods, and Slave Trade. A chart shows the goods traded by the Thirteen Colonies.
Siteseen
Siteseen: Land of the Brave: Salutary Neglect
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...
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: African Americans in the British New World: The Middle Passage
A description of the Middle Passage, the leg of the triangular trade that brought slaves from Africa to America. Read descriptions of the way slaves were transported in the ships across the ocean.
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: Politics and Religion
The Civil Wars and the Restoration of the monarchy, the Enlightenment or 'Age of Reason', and British colonialism: investigate the political and religious contexts of Restoration and 18th-century literature.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: West African Society at the Point of European Contact
Prior to European contact, western Africa's powerful kingdoms supported the arts, technology, and thriving economies. Read about the areas from which slaves were transported before the transatlantic trade began.