How Did Women End The Slave Trade? Flashcards
The sugar boycott
. Earliest example of consumers using their purchasing power to reject the trade in non ethical goods
. First national boycotts in British history and became a huge success by women
Mary Wollenscraft
. Writer and founding feminist
. Mother of Mary Shelley
. As a teacher she made a case for emancipating and educating
. She compared the experience of enslaved Africans to that of women
Hannah More poem
. 1788 -‘Slavery, a Poem’, to coincide with Wilberforce’s parliamentary campaignfor abolition
. The poem described a mistreated, femaleslave separated from her children
. Questioned Britain’s role in the Slave Trade
Mary Birkett
. Dublin Quaker
. 1792 - ‘A Poem on the African Slave Trade’
. The poem urges other women to boycott slave produced goods in protest
Who was Phyllis Wheatley
. The first published African American poet
. Born in Africa, was kidnapped and taken to the USA at 8
. She regularly spoke out against slavery at public meetings
Phyllis Wheatley poems
. Published in London in 1773
. Described the shock of the experience ofbeing enlsaved
Amelia Opie
. Poem - ‘The negro boys tale: a poem addressed to children’ 1802
. She wrote on humanitarian issues in a populist style
Ann Yearsley
. Bristol milk-woman
. Published anti-slavery poems and stories
Women in the abolition society
. 10% of the 1787-8 subscribers were women
. By 1788, the Abolition Society had 206 female subscribers
What was key to the success of the sugar boycott?
Potter wares with anti-slavery messages and pamphlets
What did Mary Wollenscraft do and when?
1792 - ‘A vindication of the rights of woman’
Where was Phyllis Wheatley well known
In the USA she became well known as a poet and she visited England in 1772
Where and when was Phyllis Wheatley’s poem published?
In 1789, one of her poems was published by a London newspaper
What did Ann Yearsley write and when?
Poem - ‘A Poem on the inhumanity of the Slave-Trade’ in 1788
Sugar boycott pamphlets
By 1791 thousands of pamphlets were produced to encourage people to boycott sugar
