Slavery

Question 1

Explain what the ‘Decline Thesis’ argument was about?

Answer 1

That slavery’s faltering profitability mandated abolition

Due to competition, slave revolts, overproduction - seen to be factors to profit loss

Question 2

In Bristol in 1780s, what % of people’s income was slave trade based?

Answer 2

40%

Question 3

How many slave voyages took place during the 18th Century?

Answer 3

35,000

Question 4

Profits amounted to approx £1m, how much a year was it making by the end of the 1700s?

Answer 4

£3m

Question 5

What was the average return on a slave trip voyage?

Answer 5

20-50%

Question 6

In the years 1772-78 it was estimated Liverpool merchants lost how much?

Answer 6

£700,000

Question 7

What fraction of slave ships had a slave revolt?

Answer 7

1/10

Question 8

By 1776, Glasgow merchants were owed how much by their American partners?

Answer 8

£1.3m

Question 9

Between 1784-1786 and 1805-1807 what % of British textiles were sold for the slave trade?

Answer 9

87%

Question 10

How much did the slave ship Ann cost to fit out?

Answer 10

£3153

Question 11

Name 3 famous humanitarians?

Answer 11

Granville Sharp, Thomas Clarkson, William Wilberforce

Question 12

How far did Thomas Clarkson travel in the years 1787-94?

Answer 12

35,000 miles

Question 13

In 1792 how many petitions were signed?

Answer 13

519 petitions

Question 14

How many branches supporting Clarksons society for effecting the abolition were set up?

Answer 14

1,200

Question 15

Which organisation did Thomas Clarkson set up with the Quakers and in which year?

Answer 15

Society for effecting the abolition of the slave trade, 1787

Question 16

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

Answer 16

1791

Question 17

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

Answer 17

10,000

Question 18

When did Wilberforce address a speech to Parliament which secured a select committee to investigate the slave trade?

Answer 18

1789

Question 19

In 1787 how many out of the 50,000 signed a petition in Manchester?

Answer 19

10,700

Question 20

When did Equiano publish, what book which offered a first account of the brutality of slavery?

Answer 20

1789 “The interesting Narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano”

Question 21

In 1790, Clarkson visited how many ships and spoke to more than how many sailors?

Answer 21

317 ships and 3,000 sailors

Question 22

June 1783 the Quakers presented a petition against the slave trade, signed by how many people?

Answer 22

273 people

Question 23

Which group led the Jamaican uprising and in which year?

Answer 23

Maroons, 1795

Question 24

When did Napoleon reintroduce slavery in the French colonies?

Answer 24

1802

Question 25

In the St Domingue (1791) uprising, how many plantations were destroyed and people killed?

Answer 25

1,000 plantations | 12,000 people killed

Question 26

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

Answer 26

45,000

Question 27

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

Answer 27

12,000 troops | 2,000 slaves

Question 28

When were the Grenada and Maroons slave revolts?

Answer 28

1795

Question 29

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

Answer 29

89,000

Question 30

How much did the British spend during 1795, Maroons uprising?

Answer 30

£500,000

Question 31

273 slaves were bought, what happened to ‘The Prince Of Orange’?

Answer 31

- 100 slaves jumped overboard, 33 drowned | - made small profit

Question 32

Which plantation made £2,000 profit a year with how many slaves?

Answer 32

- Codrington (Barbados) | - 276 slaves

Question 33

Marlborough was captured by 420 slaves meaning the finances invested in the ship were lost. When was this?

Answer 33

-1752

Question 34

When Napoleon reintroduced slave trade in 1802 what was it patriotic to do in Britain?

Answer 34

In Britain, opposing the slave trade became a patriotic duty

Question 35

The rate in which the abolitionist argument grew by was increased by what?

Answer 35

Increasing connections (London to Edinburgh by coach in 75 hours) as well as through the increasing postal service also

Question 36

What was published in 1786 by the Quakers which won William Wilberforce to the cause?

Answer 36

“Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species”

Question 37

What had Olaudah Equiano marched on Parliament to support and when?

Answer 37

Dolben act 1788 (placed limitations on the number of enslaved Africans that British slave ships could transport)

Question 38

How many sugar plantations were abandoned and how many sold for debt?

Answer 38

- 65 sugar plantations abandoned | - 32 sold for debt

Question 39

Each of Wilberforce’s proposed abolition bills between 1791-99, were what?

Answer 39

Rejected