Power Point: Introduction Open the website
Artefact: 'A Negro Festival... in the Island of St. Vincent' This etching was made about 1800. It shows a festival on the Caribbean island of St Vincent.
Activity: West African History (2 of 2) Case study of West African Kingdoms
PDF: Triangular Trade Background information Download the background information for the theme 'Triangular Trade'.
Video: Hostages Watch a short extract from a session where a museum facilitator is working with a group of pupils and explaining that Africans often kidnapped other Africans and held them as hostages in order to acquire more slaves.
Sound file: Thomas Thistlewood Listen to an actor describing how Thomas Thistlewood, a plantation owner, recorded in his diary how runaway slaves were punished.
Sound file: Radio play, tea party Listen to a short radio play recorded in a museum session, where two pupils scripted a short piece as if they were having tea in the 18th century.
Video: Jane Smeal Listen to an actor read the words of Jane Smeal writing to her friend Elizabeth Pease in 1836.
Artefact: Asante boxes for gold dust Gold was central to the Asante economy of West Africa and commercial transactions used gold or gold dust.