Pupils will be urged to look at the long-term impacts of slavery

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Britain's involvement in the slave trade is to be studied by all secondary pupils in England from September.

Children will study the development of the trade, colonisation and how slavery was linked to the British empire and the industrial revolution.

Pupils will also study characters like Nigerian-born slave Olaudah Equiano, one of the prominent African figures who campaigned for abolition.

In history, World War I and WWII and the Holocaust are already compulsory.

The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) said all children aged 11 to 14 would be required to study the nature and effects of the slave trade, resistance to it, and its abolition.

The slave trade is an integral part of British history Kevin Brennan Children's minister

Children will also learn about the development of international trade and the impact of the British empire on different people in Britain and overseas.

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