Abolitionists timeline

Key stage

KS3

Subject

History

Collection

Changemakers

Format

PDF (94kb)

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Photograph of memorial of Olaudah Equiano in St Margaret's Church, Westminster Abbey

Overview

Consolidate your understanding of Britain’s transatlantic slave trade and the events leading to its abolition with this concise timeline. It also contains birth and death dates of the key abolitionists mentioned within the teaching resources and memorialised at Westminster Abbey.

Learning objectives

  • To understand the chronological events of the transatlantic slave trade
  • To understand the crossover of key abolitionists
  • To understand more about Britain’s transatlantic slave trade, its effects and its eventual abolition