
Starting with a bill of lading listing 197 slaves whose original identity was cruelly expunged by slave-traders, historians in Year 8 explored the origins and legacy of Trans-Atlantic Enslavement in an Enquiry Day at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. Using original documents from the museum’s archives and replica artefacts, our pupils interrogated the sources to learn more about “this evil trade”. Complimented on their responses and the quality of their questioning, working alongside the museum’s archivists, King’s pupils explored how slavery became a mainstay of the British economy until resistance and moral uncertainty led to its abolition, albeit, with a final cruel twist, it was the slave-owners who were compensated.
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