![Head of an 'Oba' from the Edo of Benin](https://understandingslavery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ea7821-175x120.jpg)
Africa before Transatlantic Enslavement
The history of Africa and African people does not begin nor end with transatlantic slavery. Understand what Africa was like and what the continent lost as a result of the trade.
![HM Brig 'Acorn'](https://understandingslavery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/px9195-175x120.jpg)
Atlantic Crossing
Understand how people were treated on the slave ships and the extent to which they suffered on the journey across the Atlantic Ocean...
![Poster of Barack Obama: 'Be The Change, January 20th 2009'](https://understandingslavery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ism_2009_7-175x120.jpg)
Diaspora
The transatlantic slave trade was the largest forced migration of people in history. Understand how this migration has affected societies, cultures and the world we live in...
![Portrait of Nancy Burns](https://understandingslavery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/1967_80-175x120.jpg)
Emancipation
Understand how the 1807 Abolition Act ended the British involvement in the slave trade but not slavery, how British women pushed for full...
!['Portrait of Sir John Hawkins, (1532 - 95)'](https://understandingslavery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/bhc2755-1-175x120.jpg)
Europe before Transatlantic Slavery
Understand social and cultural aspects of Europe to contextualize the impact of the transatlantic slave trade on this part of the continent.
![TUC book on racism in the workplace, 1983](https://understandingslavery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2003_5_25-175x120.jpg)
Legacies
Understand how the 1807 Abolition Act ended the British involvement in the slave trade but not slavery, how British women pushed for full...
![Ownership Manacle (lock and key)](https://understandingslavery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/zba2474-175x120.jpg)
Plantation Conditions
Understand the harshness of daily life on the plantations, the oppression used to exert control, and the profits...
!['Toussaint L'Ouverture, Chief of the French Rebels in St. Domingue](https://understandingslavery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/zba2710-175x120.jpg)
Resistance and Rebellion
Understand how the enslaved actively resisted and rebelled at every stage of oppression including uprisings on board ship, forming their own communities and maintaining cultural...
![Abolition commemorative token](https://understandingslavery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/294c-175x120.jpg)
The Campaign for Abolition
Understand the forces that led to abolition, the resistance and rebellion on the part of the enslaved, and the...
![Rum bottle](https://understandingslavery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/rum_bottle-175x120.jpg)
Trade and Commerce
Understand how the demand for luxury goods and the Industrial Revolution fuelled the transatlantic slave trade, and how the British...