History Footsteps from the Victoria County History  

Welcome...
This is a town trail with a difference. It aims to show you what the handsome squares and quaint buildings of a pleasant English city have to do with one of the ugliest and most destructive events in human history -- the Transatlantic slave trade.

  • To learn more about this project, click on Introduction - we'll tell you about what you'll find here and how it was put together.
  • The links labelled The Docks, Power, Wealth, Trade, Campaigns and Legacy are the available units - if you have visited us before, choose the unit you want to follow.
  • The Activities link will take you to downloadable worksheets covering all of the activities in the trail.
  • To access Slavery links, click Links; for a map of the trail, click Trail Map; if you are a teacher wanting more information, please click the For Teachers link
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