Life on the Slave Plantations
Read through the following sources and use them to answer these questions.
a. Physical - What sort of disabilities do these slaves have, and what may have caused them?
b. Mental - What evidence shows that slaves maintained their dignity?
c. Why might these adverts be misleading about the lives of slaves in the Americas?
You will move on to the activities at www.activehistory.co.uk
(a) Roleplay based around primary source accounts - Slave Narratives
(b) Class competition based around pictures and captions relating to punishments on the slave plantations