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Colin Kemp

Colin Kemp is a historian and Chairman of the West Africa Squadron Memorial fund

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Should we add teaching about the West Africa Squadron to the Black History Month’s curriculum?

The following is from the Department of Education’s guidelines about how Black History should be taught at Key Stage 3 Teachers could, for example, look at Britain’s transatlantic slave trade – its effects and its eventual abolition – including the successful slave-led

by Colin Kemp
February 4, 2024
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