Entrance Exams: Humanitarian Campaigns

Question 1

Sugar boycott

Answer 1

Organised by women
By 1791 it was estimated between 300,000 and 400000 women refused to buy sugar from the West Indies so sugar sales had dropped by 1/3.

Question 2

Josiah wedgewood

Answer 2

Designed the ceramic slave medallion of a kneeling male slave in chains with the slogan ‘am i not a man and a brother’
Publicly advertised the wearers support of abolition