Artefact: Bance Island, Sierra Leone This is a watercolour drawing of about 1805. It shows the slave fort on Bance Island at the mouth of the Sierra Leone River in West Africa.
Activity: Middle Passage (2 of 2) Basic reconstruction of a cramped space
Activity: Slavery (2 of 3) Accounts of slavery
Activity: Resistance & Rebellion (2 of 2) Case study
Activity: Legacy (2 of 3) Freetown
PDF: Middle Passage Quotes Download the Middle Passage Quotes for the activity 'Conditions on the hold of a ship'.
PDF: Abolition Tactics Table Download the Tactics table for the activity 'Abolition tactics'.
PDF: West African History Background information Download the background information for the theme 'West African History'.
Power Point: Rights of Slaves Use this powerpoint to compare the rights of slaves in the eighteenth century with the U.N. Summary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
Sound file: Kofi Listen to an extract of an actor describing how a young African, Kofi, might have been captured and sold into slavery.