#RoyalVisitJamaica made u want 2find out more about Jamaica, Britain, slavery, wealth & #Reparations ? Search: Legacies of British Slavery website. It tracks who the slave-owners were 1763-1834 & how they invested ££. THREAD: how 2use it 2research #Jamaica ucl.ac.uk/lbs// To find out more about the slave-owners who claimed 4 £20 million compensation from Brit gov for their 'property' in people at the end of slavery in 1834 click on the 'Advanced Search' tab & select 'Jamaica' from the 'Colony' drop down menu in the 'Claims' section.

TEACHING SLAVERY: This kind of practice needs to stop. But how do we get to a place where teachers can change their practice? That comes through a deeper knwlg of the history / legacies & connecting that understanding 2 appropriate pedagogical methods in the classroom. THREAD...

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A good place 2 start is by reading some of the research in2 teaching traumatic histories. Kay Traille's research in2 the experiences of black students is eye opening 4 educators in terms of the impact of poor pedagogy when engaging with hist of slavery history.org.uk/secondary/reso…

Following another reductive misrepresentation of work by @corinne_fowler @ColonialCountr1 a thread on botany & slavery. Pic: yellow leaved Hibbertia, native 2 Australia. Named 4 George Hibbert - slave-owner/amateur botanist. His collecting utlised his imperial commercial networks He sent his gardeners out 2 empire 2 collect plant specimens. As Kenneth Cozens documented: Francis Masson traveled 2 the Cape of Good Hope aboard the HMS Resolution, on Captain James Cook’s Second Voyage of discovery to collect plants on behalf of Hibbert academia.edu/12319084/Georg…