History: Understanding The Atlantic Slave Trade With Dr W. Jack Rhoden From Bishop Grosseteste University

This session provides an introduction to the transatlantic slave trade with interactive individual/group exercises designed to get students to examine recent research on the total numbers involved and what this slave trade data can tell us about the wider histories of Africa, the Americas and Europe in the early modern period.

The session will enable students to work practically with reliable data to answer big historical questions, such as:

• Why did slave trade happen?
• On what scale?
• Over what time period?
• Who was primarily involved?
• How did it change the world?

Our events are designed so that a group of students can take part from a classroom or students and teachers can take part as individuals, either from school or from home. This means that sessions will continue irrespective of possible school closures.

As a live, participative event, this session will not be recorded but slides and other resources will be shared after the event, where available.

Suitable for: Year 12 and 13 students (and equivalent) studying, or interested in studying, History and related subjects. We also welcome interested students from other disciplines. This is particularly suitable for students studying British, European or Atlantic history from 17^th century into the 19^th century and for those interested in histories of the colonial Americas, American Revolution, histories of race and economic histories of this period

Preparation/Pre-Reading: Much of the data is embedded in this website which students may wish to look at prior to the session: https://www.slavevoyages.org/

Maps from the site will also be utilised in the session. Much of the session is drawn from this academic journal article: https://doi.org/10.2307/2674417 (but this is not essential pre-reading).

Students may wish to consider questions they have about the topic and/or about studying this discipline at university.

The IT Setup: The event will be run on Bluejeans and participants will be able to join using laptops, tablets, and mobile devices. If you are joining as a school group, we recommend connecting with one device and projecting on to a whiteboard. You will be able to interact with the university via a microphone and/or typed comments and questions. Full details will be sent to those who have registered (see below) prior to the event.

Booking a Place: This is free for schools and colleges. If you would like to take part in this event, please register your interest using the link to the registration form below: