Britain Booklet 1 - Abolition Of The Slave Trade

Question 1

What % of Britain’s textile output went abroad with African markets taking the biggest share?

Answer 1

87%

Question 2

What profit did the Cordrington plantation make each year?

Answer 2

£2,000

Question 3

How many slaves did the Codrington plantation have?

Answer 3

276 slaves

Question 4

Which countries allegedly threatened profit for Britain’s slave trade?

Answer 4

Cuba, France

Question 5

What was the ratio of slave ships that had slave revolts?

Answer 5

1:10

Question 6

Between what percentages of profit would slave traders get from a slave voyage?

Answer 6

20-50%

Question 7

Which slave ship did Clarkson show an image of?

Answer 7

Slave Ship Brookes

Question 8

What process had Europe gone through which moved away from religious teaching?

Answer 8

Enlightenment

Question 9

How many pamphlets had the Quakers distributed?

Answer 9

10,000

Question 10

How much of Britain’s income was dependent on slave income?

Answer 10

24%

Question 11

Which slave ship was involved in the murder of slaves that were thrown overboard? How many slaves?

Answer 11

-Slave ship Zong
-133 slaves

Question 12

When did Equiano publish his autobiography?

Answer 12

1789

Question 13

How many members were in ‘Sons of Africa’ ?

Answer 13

12 (including Equiano)

Question 14

What group did Equiano join?

Answer 14

Sons of Africa

Question 15

Why could Wilberforce be criticised?

Answer 15

He was a supporter of gradual abolition

Question 16

When did Wilberforce propose his first bill to abolish the slave trade?

Answer 16

1791

Question 17

How far did Clarkson travel between 1787-1794?

Answer 17

35,000

Question 18

Where was Wilberforce’s constituency?

Answer 18

Hull

Question 19

How many slave voyages were there?

Answer 19

35,000

Question 20

Slave based income in Bristol? (%)

Answer 20

40%

Question 21

What percentage of Britain’s textile output went abroad with African markets taking the biggest share?

Answer 21

87%

Question 22

How much profit did British traders get from slave sales?

Answer 22

£60 million

Question 23

How much money was made in slave based planting profits?

Answer 23

£3.8 million (about £450 million in contemporary terms)

Question 24

By 1792, how many anti-slavery petitions had been signed?

Answer 24

519

Question 25

When was the revolution in Saint Domingue?

Answer 25

1791

Question 26

How many plantations were burned and people killed in Saint Domingue during the revolts?

Answer 26

1,000 plantations burned
12,000 people killed

Question 27

What % of the world’s sugar did Saint Domingue produce? And how much of the world’s coffee?

Answer 27

30% of the world’s sugar
half of the world’s coffee

Question 28

How many times bigger was Saint Domingue compared to Britain’s largest colony in the Caribbean and Jamaica?

Answer 28

2 time bigger. Twice the size

Question 29

When did the revolts in Grenada, St. Vincent and St. Lucia start?

Answer 29

1795

Question 30

On St Lucia how many British troops did it take to retake the island against how many slaves?

Answer 30

12,000 British troops
against 2,000 slaves

Question 31

What year did Britain retake St Lucia?

Answer 31

1803

Question 32

When was the revolt in Jamaica?

Answer 32

1795

Question 33

How much did Britain spend on retaking Jamaica?

Answer 33

£500,000

Question 34

How many British sailors died on naval or transport ships?

Answer 34

19,000

Question 35

In the British army from 1793-1801 how many died in battle or from diseases?

Answer 35

45,000