Students should work from the full size, completed map page shown with the link from this section's main index page.  Emphasize neatness from the beginning!

   Students should complete this map as they work on the facing page.  Have students read the first paragraph aloud, decide together on the right answer for the blank, then locate and shade the area of the Slave Coast with an orange color pencil.
 
   Do the next paragraph the same way, and have students shade Portugal with the purple color pencil.  Point out the location of Madeira and the Canary Islands.
 
   Continue through the paragraphs on the facing page, working on the maps as you go.  When you get to the paragraph that discusses the trading triangle, have students carefully draw a trading triangle with a red color pencil (or erasable ink pen) connecting Boston, Africa and the West Indies.
 
   Students should label the triangle with a #2 pencil or a red erasable ink pen.  Be sure they understand what molasses is.  It is a by-product of sugar making, and was converted to rum by merchants in the Boston area.
 
   Finally, have students locate and shade England.  Point out that England, including her colonies, profited greatly from the slave trade, as did many other European countries.  But England was also home to the world's first anti-slavery society.  Students should also know that slavery existed at various times throughout the world's history in every civilization.  Only the civilization of Europe and the Americas - called Western civilization - developed a widespread movement that eventually ended slavery.