Bexley: The Slavery Connection
These Teachers’ Resource Notes offer a history of Bexley’s connections with the Transatlantic Slave Trade and a set of teaching activities using the Bexley Museum and Archive Collections. We also have a loans box to support this subject in the classroom. Both offer advice on teaching this emotive area of history.
This resource was developed in collaboration with local historian Cliff Pereira internationally renowned for his work on Black and Asian history and the Bexley African Caribbean Community Association (BACCA) in 2007.
This often neglected but integral part of British, African and West Indian history is relevant to all of Bexley’s residents, it shows the impact of the Transatlantic Slave Trade on the borough in which we live. These resources acknowledge those who were involved with the trade as well as those who fought and campaigned against it, including the enslaved Africans themselves.
These resources also discuss the impact and legacies of the Transatlantic Slave Trade including racism.
Please note the Sections 4 and 5 use images already downloaded with Sections 1-3. See Teacher’s Resource Pack for details.