Slavery Flashcards
Approximately how many Scottish ships did Mark Duffill estimate were directly involved in slave trading during the 18th century
30
Operated by a Scottish conglomerate after 1748, which island functioned as a staging post for enslaved Africans before they were shipped across the Atlantic?
Bance Island
Who wrote ‘Capitalism and Slavery (1994)’, which influentially argued the profits from the slave economy underpinned Britain’s Industrial Revolution
Eric Williams
What kind of fabric was ‘Osnaburg’, a coarse cloth produced in Scotland that became widely used as clothing for enslaved people in the Americas?
Linen
In the peak year of 1761, what weight of tobacco was imported to Glasgow from the Americas?
47 million pounds
The legal case of which enslaved man, heard during the 1770s, is generally held to have established that slave-holding was illegal in Scotland?
Joseph Knight
Roughly what proportion of pro-abolition petitions presented to the British Parliament in 1792 are reckoned to have come from Scotland?
1/3
Which Scotsman wrote ‘History of Dahomey (1790)’, generally considered one of the most important pro-slavery tracts every published in Britain?
Archibald Dalzel
In which year was the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act?
1807
In which year was the Act of Emancipation, abolishing slavery throughout the British Empire?
1833
TRUE/FALSE: In proportion to population share, Scots were over-represented among the slave-owners awarded compensation after the abolition of slavery
True
