Bring a fascinating, national link to the Transatlantic Slave Trade into your classroom with our Online Transatlantic Slave Trade workshop.
Our friendly and knowledgeable team will guide your class through Harewood’s challenging past, introducing them to important characters from Harewood’s story and explaining the Lascelles’ involvement in the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
Your students will also gain an understanding of life on a sugar plantation and will use a document from our archive to uncover stories of resilience and bravery of the enslaved people that worked on the Lascelles’ plantations.
The session is fully interactive and educators will be provided with learning resources and a session plan prior to the session.
Important Information:
- This workshop requires resources to be printed in advance.
- This workshop is designed to be run from classrooms and is not currently bookable for pupils learning from home.
- Due to the sensitive and complex nature of the topic we strongly recommend that the children are already studying the topic or have a good foundation of knowledge before booking the workshop. The session is focused on Harewood’s links to the Transatlantic Slave Trade, and in the limited time that we have, we cannot teach this in addition to what the Transatlantic Slave Trade was and its global context.
Capacity: Up to 3 classes of 30 pupils
Content Warning
This workshop includes references to historical events of a sensitive nature. As much information has been included as possible that is suitable for KS2 and KS3 pupils.
Documentation from our archive and objects from the collection may include vocabulary and imagery created and used by societies in which very different attitudes and behaviours were normalised.
We understand that some students may find the collection and its context challenging and upsetting and we will do our best to support you.
If you have any specific questions or would like to discuss this session in more detail please contact the team on learn@harewood.org.
