Slave Trade

Question 1

What comes under the individuals argument?

Answer 1

Thomas Clarkson
William Wilberforce
Olaudah Equiano

Question 2

What comes under pressure groups?

Answer 2

Quakers

Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade

Question 3

How many pamphlets did Clarkson send out for the sugar boycott 1792?

Answer 3

70,000

25,000 women said they would boycott already before pamphlet distributed

Question 4

How many copies of Clarkson’s essay were printed?

Answer 4

10,000

Question 5

How far did Clarkson travel 1787-94?

Answer 5

35,000 miles

Question 6

How many branches of the ‘Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade’ did Clarkson find?

Answer 6

1,200

Question 7

How many ships and sailors did Clarkson visit in 1790?

Answer 7

317 ships

3,000 soldiers

Question 8

From when and until did Wilberforce introduce his bills to parliament?

Answer 8

1791 to 1799

Question 9

What convinced Wilberforce to rally for abolition?

Answer 9

Clarkson’s essay

Question 10

When did Equiano publish his autobiography?

Answer 10

1789

Question 11

When did Equiano joins the ‘Sons of Africa’?

Answer 11

1787

Question 12

When did the ‘Sons of Africa’ march on parliament & in support for what act?

Answer 12

1788, in support for the Dolben Act

Question 13

When were the Quakers anti-slavery committee founded?

Answer 13

1783

Question 14

What did the Quakers believe?

Answer 14

All men were equal before God

Question 15

When did the Quakers present a petition?

Answer 15

1783, 273 signatures

Question 16

When was Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade created?

Answer 16

1787

Question 17

When did the Society present an abolition bill?

Answer 17

1796

Question 18

When was the Zong case?

Answer 18

1783

Question 19

What was the Zong case?

Answer 19

Captain of slave ship, Zong, threw 133 africans overboard in order to claim insurance money

Question 20

What did Josiah Wedgewood create?

Answer 20

Am I not a man and a brother plaque

Question 21

What drawing of what ship showed poor conditions?

Answer 21

Brookes, diagram showed 482 slaves, but actually carried upwards of 740.

Question 22

What lobby opposed abolition?

Answer 22

West India Lobby, income depended on slavery, had ties to 50 MPs

Question 23

What are the economic arguments?

Answer 23

Decline Thesis
Financial Considerations
Economic Considerations

Question 24

What does the Decline Thesis claim?

Answer 24

slavery was only abolished as it wasn’t profitable anymore

Question 25

What return percentage did Liverpool port have?

Answer 25

100%

Question 26

What did slave ship 'Ann' make in profits in 1753 voyage?

Answer 26

£4,847 after paying back £3,153 spending

Question 27

How many ships had slave revolts?

Answer 27

1 in 10

Question 28

Why did some American buyers owe merchants?

Answer 28

Their income was uncertain as they depended on harvests. | 1776- Glasgow merchants owed £1.3 million

Question 29

Why did some American buyers owe merchants debt?

Answer 29

Their income was uncertain as they depended on harvests. | 1776- Glasgow merchants owed £1.3 million

Question 30

What was the Dolben Act?

Answer 30

1788, improved ship conditions

Question 31

How many slave voyages took place between 16th-19th century?

Answer 31

35,000

Question 32

How much profit did the slave voyages produce?

Answer 32

End of 1780s - £3 million per year | cost little more than £3,000 to fit a ship out

Question 33

Why was Liveropool Port important?

Answer 33

Biggest slave trading port in the world | Claimed 3/7 of all European trade

Question 34

What percentage of Britain's textile produce went abroad

Answer 34

87% in 1784-1786 and 1805-1807

Question 35

What percentage of Britain's textile produce went abroad?

Answer 35

87% in 1784-1786 and 1805-1807 | Most went to African markets

Question 36

What could a normal voyage return?

Answer 36

20-50%

Question 37

What percentage of the country's income was from slave trade?

Answer 37

24%

Question 38

When did Britain loose America?

Answer 38

1783

Question 39

When did Napoleon reintroduce slave trade?

Answer 39

1802

Question 40

What slave revolts were there?

Answer 40

St. Domingue (Haiti) St Lucia Jamaica

Question 41

What happened at St Domingue slave revolt 1791?

Answer 41

over 1,000 plantations burnt | 12,000 people killed

Question 42

What happened in St Lucia 1803?

Answer 42

12,000 troops to take back island against 2,000 slaves

Question 43

What happened in Jamaica 1795?

Answer 43

500 Maroons rebelled- only had 150 muskets against 5,000 troops Lasted over 6 months GB spent over £500,000 to stop uprising

Question 44

What happened in Jamaica 1792?

Answer 44

Colonial Assembly abandoned use of shackles, collars and mutation as punishment