Thanks to the University of York Borthwick Archives and Professor Jim Walvin, we have been focusing on York and area in connection with slavery, abolition and industry. This complex topic could be approached using a local focus. To help teachers, here is a Padlet of ideas, knowledge and resources to help with planning and teaching. There are:
- Resources relating to the two people who lived in York having been compensated for owning enslaved people – they are on the UCL Legacies database.
- Images from the Harewood Lascelles archive.
- Clips of Prof Walvin giving perspectives on abolition.
- A story from letters by a methodist missionary on Nevis at the time of abolition.
- Maps, timelines and images
- A short reading/listening list for busy teachers.
Please do let us know if there is anything you would like adding to this. The intention is not to replicate what is elsewhere, but to keep a specific local/ new focus.
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