WebQuest: Heroes of Abolition
WebQuests offer interactive resources for schools from nine national museums.
Who were the heroes of the abolition of slavery in Britain? KS3 History.
This WebQuest covers the following topics:
- Abolition of slavery
- Bias in primary sources
- What makes a hero?.
The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840
by Benjamin Robert Haydon
1841
NPG 599
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Related sitters
- Henry Beckford
- William Beckford
- Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Bt
- Thomas Clarkson
- William Cowper
- Olaudah Equiano ('Gustavus Vassa')
- Sir John Hawkins
- Hannah More
- John Newton
- Amelia Opie
- Ignatius Sancho
- William Ansah Sessarakoo
- Granville Sharp
- Toussaint-l'ouverture
- Josiah Wedgwood
- John Wesley
- William Wilberforce
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