Economic

Question 1

What is Decline Thesis?

Answer 1

Critical of Humanitarians, Abolition was motivated by decline and only happened because the slave trade was no longer profitable.

Question 2

What does Seymour Dresher argue?

Answer 2

Argues the economic decline played a role but was not the only motive.

Question 3

How many slave ship voyages took place between the 16th and 19th centuries?

Answer 3

35,000 voyages

Question 4

In the 1780’s what % of people’s income in Liverpool was based on the Slave Trade?

Answer 4

40%

Question 5

How much profit was made a year by the end of 1700’s?

Answer 5

£3million a year.

Question 6

How much did it cost to fit a ship in 1753?

Answer 6

£3153

Question 7

In 1776 how much were merchants in Glasgow owed by American partners?

Answer 7

£1.3 million

Question 8

How much did merchants in Liverpool lose?

Answer 8

£700,000

Question 9

When was the Dolben Act. introduced, what did it do?

Answer 9

1788
Improved conditions on ships but also added more costs