Waiting for someone to come along and say it's all our fault their economies are up the shoot because we stopped buying slaves from them.....................!
All cases came under the label of 'History' - just history; though obviously in my day that meant more political history, and in the naughties and beyond, more emphasis on social history. Nowhere was there a choice of two different sorts of history courses. Syllabuses change over 50 years!
No doubt it has changed. When I did GCE History Wilberforce hadn't even been invented - not as part of the GCE syllabus anyway! As my daughters went through school (several years apart) the emphasis on slavery (along with the holocaust) increasingly dominated their history courses. In fact, by...
I didn't know that - but I'm glad to hear it. Our kids get it drummed into them at school all about the wicked British building wealth on the slave trade (with comparatively little detail about the wicked British role in the abolition of the slave trade) - it is only fair to remember that it was...
Should be located in West Africa, where the slaves were seized from their homes and villages, rounded up by stronger more aggressive tribes and brought to the coast for sale.