[loz]

ok now i have this topic the african slade trade also known as the slave triangle as well...
now i need quick brief information on the slave trade a reli good website as i need to make a poem...
please whoever can help me please do !

thankyou.

[Mrs Faithorn]

Basic info on the Slave Trade can be found on these sites:

This one is a good general article from the BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.u...ica/1523100.stm


This one has a good description of the 'Middle Passage' (ie the sea journey from Africa to America)
http://www.pbs.org/w...art1/1p277.html

This one might help to inspire your poem:
http://www.juneteenth.com/middlep.htm

and this one has detailed info organised in neat categories:
http://www.spartacus....uk/slavery.htm

I hope one or more of these will help.

[loz]

thankyou for your help.

[Mrs Faithorn]

Pleased to help.

Can your poem be a rap? That might be a good way of tackling the task - if you can do that. I know some students are brilliant at it.

[loz]

it could very well be a rap but we are not reading them out or presenting them yes that would be a very good idea though

[Mrs Faithorn]

Ah well .... stick with a poem then. Pity really; a rap would be great for this.

[loz]

yes i know what you mean.. anyway thankyou for all your help.

[hassan]

i need to do a essay on the 'Black people’s actions were the most important reasons foe the end of slavery'
its an essay based on the slave trade a need help

[MrJohnDClare]

Hi Hasan
You will have in your notes from your teacher a number of ideas of what brought the slave trade to an end. These will include ideas such as humanitarian movements (all that Wilberforce stuff), lessening profitability (growing costs and reducing price of slaves), economic alternatives (such as machinery - the cotton gin), slave rebellions (including Toussaint L'Ouverture), growing belief in the Rights of Man (in the French Revolution) etc. ... AND the work of black anti-slavery campaigners such as Olaudah Equiano.

This is a typical describe - explain - assess essay.

Take each idea in turn, and turn each idea into a paragraph.
For each idea, make sure you:
1. Describe it in a fair amount of detail.
2. Explain why ir helped to end the slave trade.
3. Assess HOW important it was in helping to end the slave trade (e.g. 'This was VERY important because it...)

At the end of your four-five-six paragraph answer, finish with a conclusion which looks at your assessments of all the different factors, AND THEN see if your essay proves that the work of black anti-slavery campaigners was the most important factor.

[prettyinpink]

i need help on about condintions in the middle passage

[MrJohnDClare]

First, prettyinpink, don't forget to say please - everybody does on this forum.
It's just polite, that's all.

Secondly, try this thread on the forum: http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/studentforu...?showtopic=3842, where this was answered for a previous question.

Why don't you go onto the forum search (click on the blue 'Do try using the forum search' link on the yellow bar at the top of the webpage) and put in Middle Passage. It will give you many more threads which may help you.

[Edward]

we did loads o0f work on this in year 9

easy

go on the bbc web sight that is the best

[Mr_Stacey]

Thanks Edward. Were there any pages in particular that you found really helpful?

[jwills91]

I need help on finding out how people in britain benefited from the slave trade.

[MrJohnDClare]

First, please may I remind you to always say please. Everybody does on this forum and not to do so is, quite bluntly, rude.

Secondly, there is no need to post over and over again. When a student makes a post, the forum pouts the message 'on moderation', waiting until a teacher-administrator Oks it (it stops spam messages). So that's why your message didn't appear immediately - it was waiting for me to read it and answer it.

Having said that, try the following:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tut...ons/four5b.html
http://www.goacom.org/overseas-digest/Hist...slavetrade.html
http://www.open2.net/historyandthearts/his..._freedom_p.html

This post has been edited by Mr Moorhouse: 15 February 2008 - 01:32 AM
Reason for edit: Typo correction.