Slavery and the Slave Trade

This books shows students how to find, evaluate, organize and use evidence on key topics about slavery and the slave trade, such as the triangular trade across the Atlantic, attitudes to slavery and conditions on plantations, and the abolition of slavery. There are extensive references to types of sources, including primary source documents like slave ownership records, eyewitness accounts, and photographs, and a range of completed examples and graphic organizers, including timelines.

Richard Spilsbury has researched and written many books. He went to university in Liverpool, an English city once involved in the transatlantic slave trade.