Coming next month to a cinema near you is the film 'Amazing Grace' , the true story of the Slave abolitionist William Wilberforce. Slavery, and it's abolition ,is a significant part of history that I believe we are duty bound to explore with our children. If we only ever look at history's heroes, yet ignore history's mistakes, we're not giving them the true picture.

Ideas and resources

Check out the story of Wilberforce by typing 'Wllberforce' into wikipedia.com. I just read this to my eight year old and he was really moved.He is currently reading the biography of Livingstone as preparation for our look at slavery next month.

www.setallfree.net/resources_current.html

www.freetheslaves.net/slavery/

www.antislavery.org  Thisnwebsites offer a host ofpractical ideas for groups to help further the struggle against slavery and similar abuses today. It also offers a very useful month by month 2007 guide to events all over UK

www.stopthetraffik.org

Try and see if you can see the film 'Amistad - Steven Spielburgs film about the courage of American Christians, inspired by Wilberforces work, just a few years later.

For actual taped reminisces of aged American slaves :  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/voices/

For hundreds of historical images: http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/index.php

God Bless

Jane

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