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While most people are familiar with the transatlantic slave trade, there is less knowledge of another major external African slave trade in world history: the trans-Saharan slave trade. Pupils work in groups to read informational texts about these two slave trades as part of a jigsaw reading and then compare and contrast their research.
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- Learners should have some understanding of European and Muslim exploration and expansion in world history before beginning this lesson
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