Understand social and cultural aspects of West Africa in the 1500s to contextualize the impact of the transatlantic slave trade on this part of the continent

Adala anklets Asante boxes for gold dust Asante ceremonial sword Asante cosmetic pot Asante stool Asante sword and sheath Asante weights for gold dust Baule comb Bead bracelets Beads Benin leopard Bow lyre Calabash bottle Calabash guitar Carved wooden figure Ceremonial headdresses Cowrie-shell belt Cowrie shells Drum from Haiti Head of an 'oba' from the Edo of Benin Ivory bracelet Ivory trade token Large manilla Machete Mask of the Sande Society from the Mende of Sierra Leone 'Oware' board from the Yoruba of Nigeria 'Pacification with the Maroon Negroes' Small drum Small drum with stick Small manillas Welt River Harp Wooden oboe or algiata, Northern Nigeria Wrought iron gong

Understand how the demand for luxury goods and the Industrial Revolution fuelled the transatlantic slave trade, and how the British economic power base enabled the trade in people to continue

'African Hospitality' Beads Box, possibly for tobacco Captured Africans Marched to the coast in a coffle Carved wooden figure Cowrie shells 'Daru' off Elmina Castle Glass bottle Musket Portrait of Sir John Hawkins, (1532 - 95) Scene on the Coast of Africa Sugar loaf Sugar nippers The slave trade Yoke

Understand how people were treated on the slave ships and the extent to which they suffered on the journey across the Atlantic Ocean

Account book for the snow, 'Molly', a slave ship Box, possibly for tobacco Carved wooden figure 'Daru' off Elmina Castle Description of a Slave Ship, about 1788 HM Brig 'Acorn', 16 guns, in chase of the piratical slaver 'Gabriel', 1841 Iron neck ring Leg-irons Model of the 'Brookes', slave ship Rum bottle 'Slave in chains' Surgical instrument set

Understand the harshness of daily life on the plantations, the oppression used to exert control, and the enormous profits made by plantation owners through the exploitation of the enslaved

$150 reward poster Account book for the snow, 'Molly', a slave ship Advertising bill for abolition 'An Interior View of a Jamaica House of Correction' Box, possibly for tobacco Branding iron Carved wooden figure Cat o'nine tails 'Female Negro Slave, With A Weight chained to her Ankle' Gravestones of Scipio Africanus (Copy) Iron neck ring 'Negroes Sunday-Market at Antigua' Ownership manacle (lock and key) Punishment collar 'Rosa ordered to be flogged' 'Sale of Slaves by Auction' 'Separation of Families' Silver whip Slave sale poster, 1829 Sugar cane The family of Sir William Young Valley Plantation, 1787

Understand how slaves actively resisted and rebelled at every stage of slavery including uprisings on board ship, forming free communities in Jamaica and successful revolts on the plantations

$150 reward poster 'A Negro hung alive by the Ribs to a Gallows' 'An Interior View of a Jamaica House of Correction' 'A Rebel Negro Armed and on His Guard' Carved wooden figure Leonard Parkinson, Captain of the Maroons 'Rosa ordered to be flogged' 'Run Away ... Jack' advertisement 'Toussaint L 'Trelawney Town, the Chief Residence of the Maroons'

Understand the forces that led to abolition, the resistance and rebellion on the part of the enslaved, and the influences of the anti-Abolitionists that prolonged slavery

Abolition commemorative token Abolition halfpenny token Abolition seal Abolition sugar bowl Advertising bill for abolition Anti-Slavery Jasperware Medallion Carved wooden figure Frontis-piece of Olaudah Equiano Frontis piece of Ignatius Sancho Gravestones of Scipio Africanus (Copy) Portrait of Thomas Clarkson, (1760 - 1846) Portrait of William Wilberforce, (1759 - 1833) Slave Trade Abolished by Great Britain, 1807, medal Tea bowl and saucer, and coffee cup, about 1760 'The Death of Colston' Wilberforce family Bible William Wilberforce (1759 - 1833)

Understand how the 1807 Abolition Act ended the British involvement in the slave trade but not slavery, how British women pushed for full emancipation, and how the apprenticeship and indentured labour systems followed in the Caribbean

Anti-Slavery Jasperware Medallion Bance Island, Sierra Leone Carved wooden figure De Emancipation plate Gravestones of Scipio Africanus (Copy) HM Brig 'Acorn', 16 guns, in chase of the piratical slaver 'Gabriel', 1841 Newly released captives on board HMS London 'Slavery in Zanzibar', about 1890 Sugar-cane cutters in Jamaica, Caribbean Tea bowl and saucer, and coffee cup, about 1760

Understand how the transatlantic slave trade shifted notions of race and cultural identity, fuelled racism and inequality, and normalized notions of superiority amongst Europeans

'A Negro Festival... in the Island of St. Vincent' Bance Island, Sierra Leone Carved wooden figure De New Year Racist advert for Pear's soap 'Slavery in Zanzibar', about 1890 Sugar-cane cutters in Jamaica, Caribbean