Slavery Flashcards
What is a Slave trader
Buy or sells slaves to work on plantations
What is slavery
Being held against your will
Being dehumanised
Forced labour
What is an abolitionist
Someone who try’s to stop slavery in political ways or someone who frees slaves
John Hawkins
He brought the slave trade to Britain. He was a naval commander as well as a slave trader he used violence to secure Slaves
Sir William dolben
He was the mp of Oxford
He passed a law to regulate slaves conditions
Rewards were given to slave trader who had less than 3% of the slaves dying in the ships
What was Grenville sharp touched by
Story of slave johns then strong
Story of johnathen strong
He got beat up sharp to him to hospital helped him recover but the. His owner reclaimed him and sold him to the West Indies where he was imprisoned. After 7 years sharp got him released
Then what did Grenville sharp do
He got a law passed by the Lord Chief Justice on the 22nd of June 1772 that there should be no selling of slaves again in England