Slave Trade

Question 1

Transatlantic Slave Trade

Answer 1

The transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas. The slave trade regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage.

Question 2

Middle Passage

Answer 2

The forced and often brutal voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World. Slaves were densely packed into ships carrying them to the West Indies.

Question 3

Plantation

Answer 3

A large farm or estate (particularly in a hot climate) on which crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are grown.

Question 4

1562

Answer 4

Sir John Hawkins began Britain’s involvement in the slave trade, trading cloth for slaves in Sierra Leone

Question 5

The first slaves arrived in the British colony of Virginia

Answer 5

1619

Question 6

Royal Africa Company

Answer 6

Organisation founded in 1672 to formally organise the trading of enslaved peoples from Africa.

Question 7

Slavery was abolished in the British Empire

Answer 7

1833

Question 8

The slave trade was banned in the British Empire

Answer 8

1807

Question 9

On average, how many slaves per year were transported to the Americas on British ships?

Answer 9

6,700

Question 10

1785

Answer 10

Thomas Clarkson wrote his influential essay on the morality of the slave trade.

Question 11

Wilberforce met Clarkson for the first time and agreed to work together for the abolition of slavery

Answer 11

1787

Question 12

Thomas Clarkson was a founder member of…

Answer 12

Committee for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade (CEAST)

Question 13

Former slaves who wrote influential autobiographies raising awareness of the horrors of the slave trade

Answer 13

Olaudah Equiano and Mary Prince

Question 14

Elizabeth Heyrick

Answer 14

Formed women’s anti-slavery societies. Organised a sugar boycott in Leicester which inspired women in other towns to follow suit.