Work of individuals

Question 1

Granville Sharp years

Answer 1

1735-1813

Question 2

What did Granville Sharp do in general ?

Answer 2

A civil servant who took keen interest in the abolition of slavery

Question 3

What did Granville Sharp do for abolition in 1767?

Answer 3

In 1767 he helped an injured slave (Jonathan Strong) who had been beaten by his master and cast out, found his paid work and defended him in court when his master sough to enslave him

Question 4

What was Granville Sharp a founding member of?

Answer 4

Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade

Question 5

What did Granville Sharp do to help slaves?

Answer 5

*Sharp used his political skill, legal knowledge, and social contacts to become the leading defender of African people in London and saved many of them from being sent back to slavery in the West Indies, often at his own expense

Question 6

Thomas Clarkson years

Answer 6

1760-1846

Question 7

What did Thomas Clarkson do?

Answer 7

• Became a leading figure in the abolition movement after winning a Latin essay competition about slavery
• Became a founding member of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade

Question 8

What mission did Thomas Clarkson go on?

Answer 8

He spent 2 years travelling England on horseback, interviewing 20,000 sailors, and obtaining equipment used on slave ships

Question 9

What did Thomas Clarkson collect?

Answer 9

• Objects which he used in campaigning lectures against the Slave Trade and kept them in a chest equipped with trays and boxes
• There were also objects that displayed the skill and talent of African craftspeople such as dyed cloth

Question 10

What did James Ramsey do

Answer 10

• Saw the suffering of slaves in 1759 when he was called to treat dysentery cases on board a slave ship
• Ramsey treated over 100 victims both slaves and sailors

Question 11

Who was Olaudah Equiano?

Answer 11

He was a former slave who wrote about his experiences

Question 12

What did Olaudah Equiano do for abolition?

Answer 12

• Wrote ‘The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
• The book made him famous and furthered the abolitionist cause
• He travelled extensively across the British Isles selling and reading his book

Question 13

When did Equiano publish his book?

Answer 13

1789

Question 14

What famous slave ship case was Sharp a part of?

Answer 14

Zong Case, 1783

Question 15

What was the Zong case?

Answer 15

133 slaves thrown overboard when supplies were running low. Wanted to make an insurance claim but was refused, bought it to court

Question 16

What was the background of Ottabah Cuagano?

Answer 16

• He was captured and sold into slavery at the age of 13 in present day Ghana, and shipped to Grenada
• In 1772 he was purchased by an English merchant who took him to England, where he was freed

Question 17

What did Ottabah Cuagano do?

Answer 17

In 1787, with the help of Olaudah Equiano, he published an account of his experiences, ‘Narrative of the Enslavement of a Native of Africa’

Question 18

What impact did Cuagano’s book have?

Answer 18

Copies of his book was sent to George III, Edmund Burke, and other leading politicians

Question 19

What did James Ramsey do?

Answer 19

• He saw the suffering of slaves in 1759 when he was called to treat dysentery cases on board a slave ship
• Ramsey treated over 100 victims both slaves and sailors

Question 20

What beliefs did James Ramsey have?

Answer 20

He strongly criticised the harsh conditions and the brutality of the overseers and suffered personal attacks from the enraged sugar planters

Question 21

What did James Ramsey publish and when?

Answer 21

• When he returned to Britain in 1781, he worked on his essay on the ‘Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves in the British Sugar Colonies’
• He also published ‘An Inquiry into the Effects of Putting a Stop to the African Slave Trade’ in 1784

Question 22

What did William Roscoe do?

Answer 22

• Most prominent of Liverpool’s abolitionists, he wrote poems denouncing the slave trade, including the ‘Wrongs of Africa’ (1787-88)
• He was elected as one of the 2 MPs for Liverpool in 1806, and voted in favour of the act abolishing the British slave trade

Question 23

What did William Wilberforce do after university?

Answer 23

Became an MP for the town in 1780 and an evangelical Christian

Question 24

What did Wilberforce initially believe?

Answer 24

Initially only believed in ending the slave trade and not slavery itself

Question 25

When was the first bill Wilberforce introduced and how successful was it?

Answer 25

He introduced a bill into Parliament in 1791 which was defeated by 163 votes to 88

Question 26

What did Wilberforce argue in 1805

Answer 26

In 1805 he argued successfully that it was unlawful for any British subject to transport slaves, but the measure was blocked by the House of Lords

Question 27

What was Ramsey’s impact when he returned to Britain?

Answer 27

His works were the first anti-slavery works by a mainstream Anglican writer who had personally seen the suffering and were therefore, very influential

Question 28

What did Ramsey publish?

Answer 28

• When he returned to Britain in 1781, he worked on his essay on the ‘Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves in the British Sugar Colonies’
• He also published ‘An Inquiry into the Effects of Putting a Stop to the African Slave Trade’ in 1784

Question 29

What did Thomas Clarkson do with the slave ship ‘Brookes’ and when?

Answer 29

Used for propaganda to show the awful conditions on a slave ships in 1789