Abolition of The Slave Trade (Individuals)

Question 1

how long was Olaudah Equiano’s book tour?

Answer 1

5 years

Question 2

What age was Equiano when he bought his freedom?

Answer 2

21

Question 3

What year was ‘The Interesting Narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano’ published?

Answer 3

1789

Question 4

What year was ‘The Society for the Abolition of The Slave Trade’ formed?

who was the first chairman?

Answer 4

1787

Granville Sharp

Question 5

What was Granville Sharp’s profession?

Answer 5

Lawyer

Question 6

Name 2 high profile cases Granville sharp was involved in

Answer 6

James Somerset 1771 - he was freed

Zong - 1781 - threw slaves overboard to gain insurance

Question 7

What religion did Wilberforce convert to, and in what year?

Answer 7

Evangelical Christianity - 1780

Question 8

What year did he present the first bill, and by how many votes was it defeated?

Answer 8

1791 - 163 votes to 88 (defeated by 75 votes)

Question 9

What society was Thomas Clarkson a member of?

Answer 9

one of the original 12 in ‘The Society for the Abolition of The Slave Trade’

Question 10

What was the purpose of Clarkson’s ‘Collection of African Productions’?

Answer 10

to prove that Britain could maintain profitable trade with Africa without the slave trade

Question 11

When was his Cambridge essay published?

Answer 11

1785

Question 12

What year was Ignatious Sanchos brought to England?

Answer 12

1731

Question 13

TRUE/FALSE - Sanchos taught himself to read and write?

Answer 13

true

Question 14

What did Sanchos publish anonymously?

Answer 14

music, poetry and plays

Question 15

What did Sanchos open in 1773?

Answer 15

a grocery shop in Westminster

Question 16

What was Ramsey’s profession/ became his profession?

Answer 16

Doctor on board slave ships —> Minister - welcomed both black and white to his church in the Caribbean

Question 17

What year did Ramsey publish ‘Treatment and conversion of African Slaves in the British Sugar Colonies’?

Answer 17

1781

Question 18

Why was Ramsey’s work so influential?

Answer 18

first anti-slavery work by a mainstream Anglican

Question 19

What did Roscoe publish in 1787?

Answer 19

‘The Wrongs of Africa’ - a poetry collection denouncing TST

Question 20

Who became MP for Liverpool in 1806?

Answer 20

William Roscoe

Question 21

What did Cuguano publish in 1787?

Answer 21

‘Narrative of the Enslavement of a native of Africa’

Question 22

What was Cuguano the first to demand?

Answer 22

total abolition of the slave trade