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Impacts of the Slave Trade on Africa Role Play

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Adam Feinberg

Subject Social Studies — World History

Grade Level Grades 9-12

Resource Type Activity

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About This Lesson

This simulation/role play is a choose your own adventure. Students are the king of Benin, a West-African kingdom. At the start of the activity, Portuguese slave traders are offering to pay big money to Benin for slaves. Students must either decide to sell or NOT sell slaves. And from that decision, they are told to either continue or skip ahead based on their answer - and all their decisions lead to 2 inevitable outcomes - a rival kingdom conquers you and sells your people as slaves, or you become so dependent on exports to Europeans that you get conquered by England in the 1800s.

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February 13, 2020

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3 Reviews

bianchielainem_1769953 December 13, 2016

I teach HS World History. My

I teach HS World History. My students enjoyed this activity. It was a great way to show students that the leaders of Africa at the time did not have a lot of options when it came to slave trade.

Adam Feinberg December 20, 2016

I'm so glad they enjoyed it!

I'm so glad they enjoyed it! Do you have any suggestions for improvement? I'm always looking to work out any kinks to make sure the lessons are as user-friendly ass possible for all classes and students.

zettsc_1856802 January 06, 2017

Loved using this to help give

Loved using this to help give my students a better perspective on the choices and consequences of African leaders during the slave trade! They loved this "choose-your-own-adventure" style activity and were so upset when they couldn't get a good result. I definitely think this will stick with them as we move forward. Thanks!

Adam Feinberg March 07, 2018

you're welcome! I'm so glad

you're welcome! I'm so glad it helped!

MichelleB14 March 06, 2018

This is a great lesson that I

This is a great lesson that I have used with my World History students because it shows them the full impact of the slave trade, while they get frustrated that they, "can't win." I did edit it to make it so the students have to justify their decision whether it be yes or no because our district is heavily focused on writing/creating arguments. I look forward to using it again and thank you for sharing this resource!