slavery henley-in-arden high school history department

SLAVERYSLAVERY

Henley-in-Arden High School History DepartmentHenley-in-Arden High School History Department

SLAVERY SLAVERY (page 1)(page 1)

YOUR TASK IS AS FOLLOWS

There are 21 slides in this presentation. On 18 of them are comments made by the general public of Bristol after they had been around an exhibition showing how the City of Bristol had made a fortune out of slavery.

These comments are how these people interpreted the exhibition. You need to remember that people react to things in different ways and that the exhibition would have had varying effects on everyone who saw it.

Your job is to put these differing responses into categories

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SLAVERY SLAVERY (page 2)(page 2)

YOUR TASK IS AS FOLLOWSYou are going to read each statement and will then decide which of the following categories it belongs to. Each category has a different coloured background, so as soon as you have found a match, change the background colour of the slide to the correct colour. (Go to FORMAT, BACKGROUND, DOWN ARROW BAR, CHOOSE COLOUR, APPLY)

• About slavery in history = RED

• About people today = YELLOW

• About Bristol today = BLUE

• About Bristol in the past = GREEN

• About the exhibition = ORANGE

• About none of these = PURPLE

One has been done for you already to give you a start - Good Luck


SLAVERYSLAVERY• I don’t believe we

did anything like that


SLAVERYSLAVERY• It’s about time

Bristol acknowledged the fact that it was built on the blood of its black sisters and brothers.


SLAVERYSLAVERY• Former colonies

renamed themselves. The name of Colston needs replacing with slave names on our streets and buildings.


SLAVERYSLAVERY• Acknowledge all of

this in a substantial piece of sculpture in a prominent position NOT THE SAD LITTLE PLAQUE on the industrial museum !


SLAVERYSLAVERY• Bristolians and

others need to take it on board as part of their heritage.


SLAVERYSLAVERY• “I hate racist

people.”From a white kid.


SLAVERYSLAVERY• I’m proud to be

black.


SLAVERYSLAVERY• I explained as much

as I could to my 3 and 5 year old children. They cried for the black children taken away from their parents and forced to work.


SLAVERYSLAVERY• Devastating as a new

resident of Bristol. I am shocked by my own ignorance, humbled by how much suffering and barbarity built this city’s fortunes.


SLAVERYSLAVERY• The exhibition

should be permanent. Every pupil should see it.


SLAVERYSLAVERY• It makes me MAD

that people are still comparing us with animals.


SLAVERYSLAVERY• Good to see no

mention of the myths about Jews being involved in this horrific trade. It was purely a ‘Christian’ activity.


SLAVERYSLAVERY• As a black person who

has had the advantage of visiting the Transatlantic museum in Liverpool, I felt this exhibition did not have enough information. The fact is it was too polished, tailored to the middle class.


SLAVERYSLAVERY• A very biased

exhibition. There were other Bristolians (than slave traders). What about the non-conformists and Quakers ?


SLAVERYSLAVERY• A formal public

apology needs to be made plus some kind of reparation.


SLAVERYSLAVERY• Sorry ! (white man)


SLAVERYSLAVERY• Bristol should

acknowledge its history. However, today’s residents are not responsible for their predecessors’ cruelty.


SLAVERYSLAVERY• Perhaps people will

feel about animals in 100 years’ time as we feel about slavery today.


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