Entrance Exams: Religion And The Abolition Of The Slave Trade Flashcards
Quakers
Religious society of Friends
Believe that god can be found in every human so enslaving people harms god
Anthony Benezet- set up an evening class for poor black children which influenced Thomas clarkson
And published anti-slavery pamphlets
Unitarians
Open minded approach that gives scope to a wide range of beliefs
William roscoe- first published opposition to the slave trade -1777 and spoke in support of the anti slavery bill
William smith - mp from 1784 to 1830 and associated with wilberforce
Baptist’s
Concepts attractive to the slaves as appeared to emphasise with them
Being baptised gives a new mode of life
No hierarchy
Methodists
Known as the non-conformists because it doesn’t conform to the CofE
Joined abolitionists ranks and via meetings the abolitionist message reached people normally excluded from conventional political activity
John Wesley 1744 wrote a tract called ‘thoughts on slavery’ which attracted the slave trade and proposed a boycott of slave-produced sugar
Have been persecuted as wage slaves
Evangelists
Wilberforce was a member of the Clapham sect -
Founded the colony of Sierra Leone as a new front in the abolition campaign to resettle former slaves and establish legitimate commerce in Africa
Used their high status in parliament
John Pinneey
‘God ordained them for use and benefit of us’
They believed that the vessel sailed ‘under god’s grace’
Society for the promotion of Christian knowledge
Inherited 2 barbados plantations in 1710 and imported fresh slaves every year
Evaluation of the quakers
Knew what it was like to be persecuted however they were on the edge of society so would not be listened t
Evaluation of baptism
When they are baptised they are then seen as respectable people who aren’t savages and believe in our god, so once religion moves into the colonies it became very difficult to continue.
