1. The Atlantic Slave Trade 1707-1807
What is Slavery?
Aims:
Must: Understand what the term slavery is
Should: Explain how it affected Scotland
‘How did Black peoples lose and regain their freedom?
“The worst crime in the history of the world”??? Some people have blamed Britain for the capture and enslavement of 11 million people. Others have said that the British own Africans billions of pounds in compensation. Your task will be to debate how slaves lost and gained their freedom.
Starter task: Describe a slave

2. What is slavery? Spot the slave!
Which of the following is slavery? Write down the ones and explain why...
Joe gets paid £3 an hour to work cleaning our school
Nasdeem gets paid £3 a day to make your Nike Air Max
Solomon gets paid nothing for a day’s work on a farm
Morgan gets paid nothing for a day’s work in school
Alfie gets paid £200 a month for brickmaking
Joe can leave his job with one month’s notice
Nasdeem can leave his job, but his family will starve
Solomon can’t leave his job, his boss controls him
Morgan can’t leave school, truancy is against the law
Alfie can’t leave until he’s paid off £250 a month on his debt to his boss.

3. The Atlantic Slave Trade 1707-1807
What is Slavery?
Aims: Must: Understand what the term slavery is
Should: Explain how it affected Scotland
1. Copy: Slavery is where a human being is owned as property by another and forced to work for no pay. Their time and labour is not their own. Slavery is usually inherited (your children are also slaves)
2. Word Association - How many words can you come up with that you think are linked to slavery? E.g. Whipping, power, £££

4. Whips Kidnapping Rights No Freedom Power Long Hours Exploitation
Ownership
Money
No Leisure Time
Violence
Sugar
Families Split
No Pay
Injustice
Chains
Choose six words and phrases from the list below that you most associate with the word SLAVERY.
Discuss why you have chosen these words and phrases.

5. Where does the Slave Trade fit?
Year 0 AD
4 - Birth of Christ
410 – Fall of the Roman Empire
– The Dark Ages
Copy out the timeline adding other important dates e.g. Russian Revolution, Irish Potato Famine, Highland clearances, WWII, Man on the Moon etc
1066 – The Battle of Hastings
1314 – The Battle of Bannockburn
1517 – – The Protestant Reformation
1562 – Hawkins makes first slave run
1641 –1649 – English Civil War
1655 – England takes Jamaica
1707 – Union of Scotland and England
1746 – The Battle of Culloden
1776 – United States declares independence
1787 – The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade
– The Napoleonic Wars
1807 – Abolition of the Slave Trade in Britain
1837 – Victorian Age
1838 – Abolition of Slavery in the British Empire
1914 – World War One

6. Do we owe compensation? Jamaica is demanding compensation for slavery.
They want the slave owners to pay $4 trillion.
This is compensation for
11 million people
Being kidnapped
and forced to work
Work unpaid
And their children
losses to their countries = fewer good workers
Losses to their countries = less good education
Copy down the reasons that make sense. Then decide...

7. How much compensation? 11 million people 23 African countries
Work out how much compensation:
11 million people
23 African countries
Cost of x1 life = £ Or what?
Cost of a person’s work... £100
Cost of punishments... £50?
Cost for each child...
Cost for country... Fewer good workers
Cost for country ... Less good education
= $
4 trillion dollars

8. Do we owe compensation Telegraph compensation video
Jamaica is demanding compensation from YOU for slavery.
They estimate that each of you owe £4000 to African and Caribbean countries.
Copy down the reasons that make sense. Then decide...

9. Slavery in Scotland?
Slave ownership in Scotland was rare… BUT, many noble families had ‘black servants’ (slaves).
This is a portrait of the 2nd Duke of Perth painted around 1700.
How do we know the boy in portrait is a slave and not just a servant?
It will take an eagle-eyed pupil to notice the iron collar around the boy’s neck. The teacher may want to point out that next to nothing is known about him – he is one of the many nameless victims of the transatlantic slave trade.

10. Slavery in Scotland?
Scotland & England have different Laws. In the 18th century it was declared in Scotland:
‘That the state of slavery is not recognised by the laws of this Kingdom, and is inconsistent with the principles there of, and finds that the regulations in Jamaica concerning slaves, do not extend to this Kingdom, and repels the master’s (Wedderburn’s) claim for perpetual service.’

11. No Slavery in Scotland? Read the Knight v. Wedderburn (1778) case.
Think: How do you 6 key words apply to the case?
In 1778, a very interesting case came before the Court of Session in Edinburgh, Scotland’s highest civil court….
N.B. – It is the convention in Scots law to say ‘against’ rather than ‘versus’ when referring to public or private legal cases.

12. No Slavery in Scotland? You may want to think about the following:
What rights did Joseph Knight have when he worked for Sir John Wedderburn?
Was Sir John a ‘bad master’?
Did everyone involved in the case Scotland think slavery was wrong?
Where did the judge’s ruling not have an effect?
Was Joseph Knight free after the trial ended