Slavery

Question 1

Equiano autobiography

Answer 1

1789 ‘The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano’

Question 2

Group Equiano joined

Answer 2

1787: Sons of Africa with Cugoano- extensive touring and lobbying e.g 1788 March on parliament in support of Dolben Act

Question 3

Wealth at death Equiano

Answer 3

estate worth £950

Question 4

Results of 1791 bill

Answer 4

defeated 163 votes to 88

Question 5

What did Clarkson found

Answer 5

1200 branches of the society

Question 6

Sailor Clarkson spoke to

Answer 6

Isaac Parker from Melampus who provided evidence of slave poaching off African coast

Question 7

Clarkson essay and copies

Answer 7

‘Is it lawful to enslave the un-consenting?’, 10 000

Question 8

Years clarkson travelled miles

Answer 8

35 000 1787-94

Question 9

Why did Clarkson lose some support?

Answer 9

Support for French Revolution

Question 10

1780s annual income dependent on trade?

Answer 10

24% country’s annual income dependent on trade and associated industries

Question 11

West India Lobby

Answer 11

Plantation owners in West Indies

50MPs estimated tied to them

Question 12

Petitions signed in 1792

Answer 12

519

Question 13

Manchester petitions signed

Answer 13

By 1787, 10 700/ 50 000 people had signed a petition

Question 14

Sugar boycott impact

Answer 14

Sales dropped by 1/3-1/2

Question 15

Slave ship Brookes copies

Answer 15

7000 printed as posters

Question 16

Act that decreases profit

Answer 16

1788 Dolben Act

Question 17

Glasgow Merchants debt

Answer 17

1776: Glasgow merchants owed over £1.3 million by American partners

Question 18

Bankruptcies

Answer 18

65 plantations in Jamaica were abandoned, 32 were sold for debts and in 1807 suits were pending against 115 others

Question 19

sugar suplus

Answer 19

six thousand tons by 1806