1807 Abolition of the Slave Trade Act

Question 1

1. What were people carrying/receiving enslaved Africans fined per slave?
2. Insurance for slave voyages would incur a penalty of what?
3. Who were to be given up?

Answer 1

1. £100.
2. £100.
3. Slaves on foreign ships taken as prizes of war.

Question 2

1. What did the Royal Navy begin doing?
2. What did Bristol’s trade now focus on?
3. What did both Bristol and Liverpool continue to ship?

Answer 2

1. Patrolling seas for slave traders.
2. African palm oil.
3. Products made by Africans and by slave labour.