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History at key stage 3    (Year 9)

Unit 15: Black peoples of America from slavery to equality?
Section 2: African roots: where did most Black Americans originate?

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Objectives
Children should learn:
  • about the differences between various indigenous African peoples
  • to locate different groups of indigenous peoples on a map of Africa
  • that environmental differences affect cultural differences
  • to identify those indigenous peoples who were most at risk from slave traders

Activities

Outcomes
Children:
  • Using a range of maps, ask pupils to establish the size, diversity and complexity of the African continent.
  • Through the use of 'factcards' about different indigenous groups, eg Ibo, Hausa ask pupils to establish links between the different groups and their immediate environment as well as the richness and diversity of African cultures. This activity could be extended into a larger scale research activity with groups of pupils investigating different indigenous African tribes and kingdoms such as Ghana, Benin, Ife and Mali.
  • Ask pupils to locate the different tribes and kingdoms on a map of Africa and establish, by considering British and European shipping routes, trade winds, etc, which Africans were most likely to be at risk from white slave traders.
  • use maps to understand the complexity of the African continent
  • analyse different features of fifteenth-century African society
  • make links between different aspects of fifteenth-century African society

Points to note
  • By considering several societies and focusing on the richness and diversity of African culture, simplistic or stereotypical explanations should be avoided.
  • This work can build on pupils' knowledge and understanding from their world history study at key stage 2.
  • ICT: pupils could use some appropriate search techniques (and some internet gateways) to find relevant materials about African cultures. They organise the information collected under appropriate headings possibly in tabular form.

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1. What does it mean to be free? What does it mean to be a slave?
2. African roots: where did most Black Americans originate?
3. Slavery in Africa: a Portuguese turning point?
4. Sold into slavery: what was the reality of the Atlantic slave trade?
5. Freedom: how was it achieved?
6. From emancipation to segregation: how free were black people?
7. From segregation to civil rights: did the Civil Rights movement bring freedom for black people?