Learning Activity Key Stage 3 Atlantic Crossing Learning Activity Key Stage 3

Task 1 Life on board the ship Olaudah Equiano gave the first eyewitness account of life on a ship from a slave's point of view: “I now wished for the last friend, death, to relieve me; but soon, to my grief, two of the white men offered me eatables; and on my refusing to eat, one of them held me fast by the hands and laid me across I think the windlass, and tied my feet, while the other flogged me severely. I had never seen among any people such instances of brutal cruelty; and this not only shewn towards us blacks, but also some of the white themselves. One white man in particular I saw, when we were permitted to be on deck, flogged so unmercifully with a large rope near the foremast, that he died in consequence of it." If students had to ask four questions to Olaudah Equinao after reading the extract left, what would they be? Question 1:__________________ _____________________________ Question 2:__________________ _____________________________ Question 3:__________________ Question 4:__________________ _____________________________ Means: Means:

Task 2 Preserving your identity Millions of men and women were forced onto ships and torn away from their families and homes. What can one preserve and hold onto during this terrible ordeal? A more active way to represent these ideas, would be to write or draw on to cards. Hang them from a life line (string) Put these ideas into an order of priority. Which ideas do you think are the most valuable and important?

Task 2 - cards Most valuable ___________________________ Less important

Task 3 Image representation Look at the Brookes image (see image file), which represents a cross-section and overhead view of the number of enslaved individuals that the Liverpool slave ship the Brookes could legally hold ICT activity: Working in small groups, create a display around the Brookes image. Research the answers to the following questions to add to your display. Who commissioned this image and why? Why was this image so powerful during the abolition campaign What impact does this image have on you? Image representation