History at key stage 3 (Year 9)
Unit 15: Black peoples of America from slavery to equality?
Section 3: Slavery in Africa: a Portuguese turning point?
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Objectives |
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- about the different ways of becoming a slave in Africa
- that in Africa, slavery was a temporary condition within specified time limits
- that European incursions changed the nature of African slavery
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Activities |
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Outcomes |
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- Explain that slavery existed in Africa long before white people arrived. Describe the different ways in which Black Africans could become slaves, along with the different ways the various tribes and kingdoms treated slaves. Emphasise the essentially temporary nature of African slavery.
- Switch the focus from slavery to the slave trade. Emphasise the difference. Describe the impact of the Islamic Arabs and the importance of Islamic teaching about slaves and slavery.
- Ask pupils to begin to construct data-capture sheets about slaves and slavery in Africa by inputting information on the situation before the 1440s.
- Focus on the arrival of the Portuguese and the ways in which, and reasons why, slavery changed once white people became involved.
- Ask pupils to complete data-capture sheets about slaves and slavery in Africa by inputting information about slaves and slavery after the 1440s.
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- make links between African and European societies
- demonstrate an understanding of one sort of impact Europeans had on African society
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Points to note |
- The data-capture sheets can be constructed as the teaching progresses, rather than as two mini-summative exercises.
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This unit is divided into sections. Each section contains a sequence of
activities with related objectives and outcomes. You can view this unit by
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