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Black History: Resistance and Abolition


Black History

No. of pages 48

Published: 2014

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Great for age 7-11 years

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The Black History series brings together a wide range of events and experiences from the past to promote knowledge and understanding of black culture today. This book looks at the struggle for freedom and the key events in the build up to the abolition of slavery.

 

This book is part of a book series called Black History .

This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Hachette Children's Group .

Dan Lyndon has been teaching for over 15 years, and is former head of history at Henry Compton School, London. He is a member of the Black and Asian Studies Association (BASA).

This book has the following chapters:

  • 1: Introduction
  • 2: Resistance in Africa
  • 3: Resistance on the Slave Ships
  • 4: The Amistad (depth story)
  • 5: Resistance on the Plantations
  • 6: Slave revolts
  • 7: Nanny of the Maroons
  • 8: Toussaint L'Ouverture's rebellion
  • 9: Abolition
  • 10: Africans in Britain
  • 11: Case Study - Olaudah Equiano the Abolitionist
  • 12: Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade
  • 13: Am I not a man and a brother?
  • 14: Elizabeth Heyrick (depth study)
  • 15: The Abolition Acts
  • 16: The Legacy of the Slave Trade
  • 17: Timeline - Resistance and Abolition-
  • 18: Websites and Bibliography

This book is in the following series:

Black History

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