Slave Trade

Question 1

Slave trade definition

Answer 1

Practise of acquiring, transporting and selling Africans as slaves

Question 2

Slavery definition

Answer 2

A system where Africans were treated like property and denied their freedom

Question 3

Atlantic slave trade

Answer 3

The lucrative business in slave trading with the Americans. The main cash was cotton and sugar, the growing and harvesting of which were very labour intensive. Slaves were seen as the most efficient way of farming these particular crops. Trader would first sail from British ports to Africa where they would trade British manufactured goods for Africans who would then be transported to the Americans

Question 4

When did the American war of independence begin

Answer 4

1775

Question 5

What year was the slave ship Zong

Answer 5

1783

Question 6

What year did Wilberforce and Clarkson meet

Answer 6

1787

Question 7

What year was the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade established

Answer 7

1787

Question 8

What year was Clarkson’s Essay on the slavery and commerce of the human species

Answer 8

1786

Question 9

What year was Olaudah Equiano’s The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano

Answer 9

1789

Question 10

What year was the the Haitian revolution

Answer 10

1791

Question 11

What year did Wilberforce introduce the first if his annual Abolition bills to parliament

Answer 11

1791

Question 12

What year did the French abolish slavery and the slave trade in French colonies

Answer 12

1794

Question 13

What year was the Slave Trade Regulation Act passed

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1799

Question 14

What year was the abolition of the slave trade

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1807

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Humanitarianism

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A concern for the welfare of other people which is often manifested through actions to alleviate their suffering

Question 16

What was the enlightenment period

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A period of time when Europe underwent a cultural and philosophical awakening which began to approach the world with a more rational mind instead of just accepting existing beliefs.

Question 17

Who were the Quakers?

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A religious denomination who believed God lived inside of everyone and therefore they highly valued human life as it was seen to be harming God himself. They were a prominent humanitarian advocate

Question 18

Who was Granville Sharp

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Campaigner to prevent seabed being forcibly taken out of Britain. A founding member of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade. In 1767 he helped a slave called Jonathon Strong in court as his master sought to re enslave him.

Question 19

Who was Thomas Clarkson?

Answer 19

A founder member of the society for effecting the abolition of the slave trade. A tireless reformer where he brought examples of equipment used on slave ships (handcuffs, shackles and branding irons.) to demonstrate the brutality of the trade. Focused his campaigning in Liverpool and Bristol as they had huge ports for the slave trade.

Question 20

What was the Zong case 1783

Answer 20

The slave ship Zong was in a voyage in 1781 where the captain Luke Collingwood ordered that 133 slaves be thrown off board due to food supplies running low. He wanted to make an insurance claim but the insurers refused to pay the claim and their was a legal case about it.

Question 21

What was the Haitian revolution 1791

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Haiti was a French colony that grew sugar and coffee and generated significant profit. Their was an open rebellion lead by Toussaint L’Ouverture . Around 4000 white people were killed, and 180 plantations burned to the ground

Question 22

Colony definition

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Foreign land that was occupied by a more powerful nation with the deliberate intention of using it for economic gain.

Question 23

Planter definition

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A term used to describe a farmer who planted crops such as sugar, tobacco and cotton on their farm or “plantation” and used slave labour to harvest them

Question 24

American war of independence

Answer 24

1776-83. A revolutionary war between Britain and its colonies in America. The victorious Americans established their own independent nation which in 1787 became the United States of America

Question 25

Republicanism

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An ideology which maintains a society and government where the head of state is a chosen representative of the people rather than the people being subjects of the head of state