Slavery

Question 1

What year did the Saint Domingue uprising happen?

Answer 1

1791, 1000 plantations were burned and 12,000 people were killed.

Question 2

Percentages for the Saint Domingue productions

Answer 2

Produced 30% of the world’s sugar and 50% of the world’s coffee.

Question 3

Was the Saint Domingue uprising successful?

Answer 3

Yes, it was the only successful uprising.
Was the crown jewel of French slave trade.

Question 4

When did GB soldiers land to halt and conquer the uprising?

Answer 4

September 1793.
Came up against Touissant L’Ouverture.

Question 5

When was the St Lucia uprising and when did the British take back the island?

Answer 5

1795
In 1803, it took 12,000 British troops to retake the island against just 2000 slaves.

Question 6

Abolitionists - Thomas Clarkson helped found..?

Answer 6

The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade.

Question 7

Who set up the Committee for the Abolition of the African Slave Trade

Answer 7

Thomas Clarkson and Granville Sharp in 1787

Question 8

How many of Clarkson’s essays were published?

Answer 8

10,000

Question 9

Religion of Clarkson

Answer 9

Catholic Quaker

Question 10

How far did Clarkson travel with his box of slave tools?

Answer 10

Over 30,000 miles

Question 11

What role did Wilberforce do?

Answer 11

Led the parliamentary campaign

Question 12

When did Wilberforce propose his anti-slavery bills?

Answer 12

Annual proposals from 1791-1799 (was rejected each time)

Question 13

When did Olaudah Equiano join the abolition movement?

Answer 13

1786, in London

Question 14

When did Equiano publish his autobiography

Answer 14

1789

Question 15

Equiano was a prominent member of..?

Answer 15

The Sons of Africa

Question 16

When was a petition by the Quakers signed and by how many?

Answer 16

June 1783 a petition against the slave trade was signed by 273 people

Question 17

How many people were in the first Quaker committee?

Answer 17

23 people, in June 1783

Question 18

When was the second Quaker committee set up?

Answer 18

July 1783

Question 19

How many copies of the Quaker’s pamphlet were distributed amongst MPs?

Answer 19

10,000 in 1784

Question 20

Were the 1783 Quaker petitions successful?

Answer 20

No, they were ignored by all in Parliament

Question 21

Prominent Angelical Christians?

Answer 21

Wilberforce and Sharp

Question 22

How many people signed an anti-slavery petition in 1792?

Answer 22

519 petitions in a year

Question 23

How big was Manchester and how many signed an anti slavery petition in 1787?

Answer 23

50,000
10,700

Question 24

How much of Britains income was dependent on the slave trade?

Answer 24

24%

Question 25

How much of the European Trade did Liverpool claim?

Answer 25

3/7ths
(was the biggest slave-trading port in the world)

Question 26

How many slave voyages took place in the 18th century?

Answer 26

35,000

Question 27

Codrington Plantation profits?

Answer 27

£2000 a year with 276 slaves

Question 28

What was the Dolben Act, 1788?

Answer 28

Restricted the number of slaves per ship

Question 29

When was the Dolben Act made permanent?

Answer 29

Renewed every year until 1799