HCHS Britain: A LEVEL UNIT 1 - abolition of slavery

Question 1

1. In the 1780s, how many slave ships left Britain?

Answer 1

Over 1000

Question 2

2. Which slave ship did Clarkson show an image of?

Answer 2

Slave ship Brookes

Question 3

3. How many ships and sailors did Clarkson see in 1790?

Answer 3

319 and 3000

Question 4

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

Answer 4

The Enlightenment

Question 5

5. Between 1784-1786 and 1805-1807, what percentage of British textiles were sold for the slave trade?

Answer 5

87%

Question 6

6. Which slave ship was involved in the murder of 133 slaves (thrown overboard)?

Answer 6

Slave ship Zong

Question 7

7. In the St. Domingue uprising, how many plantations were destroyed and people killed?

Answer 7

1000 and 12,000

Question 8

8. How many slaves did British slave ships carry?

Answer 8

300,000

Question 9

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

Answer 9

519

Question 10

10. Name another humanitarian campaigner who helped Clarkson

Answer 10

Granville Sharp

Question 11

11. Which group led the Jamaican uprising and in which year?

Answer 11

Maroons, 1795

Question 12

12. Which potter created the ?am I not a man? plaque?

Answer 12

Josiah Wedgewood

Question 13

13. What organisation did Thomas Clarkson set up with the Quakers and in which year?

Answer 13

Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1787

Question 14

14. Which act restricted the number of slaves on a ship and when was it passed?

Answer 14

Dolben Act, 1788

Question 15

15. How many branches supporting Clarkson?s Society for Effecting Abolition were set up?

Answer 15

1200

Question 16

16. Which MP helped Clarkson and where was his constituency?

Answer 16

William Wilberforce, Hull

Question 17

17. What was the average return on a slave trip voyage?

Answer 17

20-50%

Question 18

18. How far did Clarkson travel between 1787-1794?

Answer 18

35,000 miles

Question 19

19. In 1784, how many copies of the Quaker pamphlet on slavery were handed out?

Answer 19

10,000

Question 20

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

Answer 20

1791

Question 21

21. When did Napoleon reintroduce slavery in French colonies?

Answer 21

1802

Question 22

22. On St. Lucia, how many troops took back the island from an army of how many slaves?

Answer 22

12,000 and 2000

Question 23

23. In Bristol, what percentage of people?s income was slave-based?

Answer 23

40%

Question 24

24. Of 50,000 people in Manchester, how many signed a petition in 1787?

Answer 24

10,700

Question 25

25. How much money was made by the slave trade per year by the end of the 1700s?

Answer 25

?3 million

Question 26

26. In total, how many British soldiers were sent to the Caribbean to fight?

Answer 26

89,000

Question 27

27. What fraction of European trade went to Liverpool in the 1790s?

Answer 27

three sevenths

Question 28

28. When were the Grenada and St. Lucia slave revolts?

Answer 28

1795

Question 29

29. In the 18th century, how many slave voyages took place?

Answer 29

35,000

Question 30

30. Between 1793-1801, how many British soldiers died in the Caribbean?

Answer 30

45,000