Runaway Slaves in Britain: bondage, freedom and race in the eighteenth century

Using our database in Lessons
Guide to using the database in the classroom and lesson plans coming soon

Minecraft (layout representation of Caribbean slave plantations)
The Saint Lauretia Project

Freedom Bound: the graphic novel
A class set of Freedom Bound will be sent to every state school in Scotland in September 2018, read more here

If you're a teacher and have any questions about Freedom Bound, please email us here

Caribbean plantation summaries

• The Middle Passage
• Caribbean port towns
• Plantation systems
• Pens
• Enslaved people's lives
• Enslaved people's work

Teaching tools

• Glasgow University’s History in Schools project (including the Atlantic Slave Trade)
• Understanding Slavery Initiative
• Nelson Mundell's Active Skill Development in History (including the Atlantic Slave Trade exemplars)
• Atlantic Slave Trade: Additional Primary Sources

Aspects of plantation life