Can teaching schoolchildren about Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade remain optional? | Morgan Ofori
Britain’s transatlantic enslavement of Africans and much of its imperial history sits as non-statutory content in the national curriculum in England. Photograph: Kath VialaView image in fullscreenBritain’s transatlantic enslavement of Africans and much of its imperial history sits as non-statutory content in the national curriculum in England. But the evidence keeps mounting that enslavement was so embedded in British society that choice is the wrong framework.
- ▪Britain’s transatlantic enslavement of Africans and much of its imperial history sits as non-statutory content in the national curriculum in England.
- ▪Photograph: Kath VialaView image in fullscreenBritain’s transatlantic enslavement of Africans and much of its imperial history sits as non-statutory content in the national curriculum in England.
- ▪But the evidence keeps mounting that enslavement was so embedded in British society that choice is the wrong framework.
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Britain’s transatlantic enslavement of Africans and much of its imperial history sits as non-statutory content in the national curriculum in England. Photograph: Kath VialaView image in fullscreenBritain’s transatlantic enslavement of Africans and much of its imperial history sits as non-statutory content in the national curriculum in England. Photograph: Kath VialaCotton Capital: ongoing seriesNational curriculumCan teaching schoolchildren about Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade remain optional?Morgan OforiMounting evidence about how slavery shaped Britain shows that teaching about its history cannot be a matter of choiceSun 4 Oct 2026 07.00 EDTLast modified on Sun 4 Oct 2026 07.02 EDTShareI often think back to my years as a secondary school history teacher, and to what I…
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