400 Years Workshop Resources

You can find links to all the resources I included in the "400 Years: Teaching the Brutality, Resistance to, and Legacy of the Transatlantic Slave System in World History" workshop on 10 October 2023. The materials are organized by slide titles.

All members of Liberating Narratives can participate in the live workshop. Members with a paid subscription have access to the resources.

Recording of the Workshop

Unfortunately, I messed up the recording process (it's been a while since I had to record a Zoom presentation, sorry).

Previously published lesson on teaching revolts by enslaved Africans

Embracing Failure Learning

• “A secret of science: Mistakes boost understanding”

Mistakes Made

• Monita Bell's "Another Slavery Simulation: We Can And Must Do Better"

Providing Historical Context

• Susan Whitfield's "Slaves on the Silk Road"
• End Slavery Now's "Slavery Today"
• Map of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
• Quote on chattel slavery from James Carter and Richard Warren's Forging the Modern World: A History

Guiding Principles

• Writing about "Slavery"? This Might Help
• Olaudah Equiano Illustration
• My preferred edition of Olaudah Equiano's autobiography.
• Graph of enslaved Africans imported from Africa
• Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
• Quotes from Thomas Thistlewood appear in Trevor Burnard's Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World.
• “Slave Merchants of Gorée” from Grasset de Saint-Sauveur’s Encyclopédie des voyages.
• Women preparing a mutiny during the Middle Passage from Rebecca Hall's Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

How Enslaved Africans Responded

• Map of Slave Revolts in the Americas, 1500-1850
• Demands from the enslaved Africans at a Brazilian plantation after they confiscated the tools and went into the forest in 1789.
• Matthew Lewis's description of the behaviors of enslaved Africans on Jamaica.
• Andrés de Islas, De español y negra, nace mulata.
• Map of maroon communities in the Americas.
• Advertisements for "Fugitive Slaves" in the The Royal Gazette.
• "Olaudah Equiano and the Zong Massacre" - article about Equaino's role in fostering the abolitionist movement in Britain.

Connecting the Past to the Present

• The New York Times article: "The Stealth Sticker Campaign to Expose New York's History of Slavery"
• The Guardian series: "Cotton Capital"