This podcast is a recording from our Britain and Transatlantic Slavery Teacher Fellowship Residential Weekend which took place 4-6 April 2019. In this session Nick Draper, with Kate Donington take the teachers through the challenges of teaching the business of slavery: Economic history in the classroom.

1. Introduction: The commodification of people.
2. What was the system? How did it work?
3. Case Study: A Slave owning family.
4. How important was slavery to the British economy?
5. Economic legacies.