Slavery

Question 1

How much compensation was given to slave traders when slavery was abolished.

Answer 1

£17 billion

Question 2

How many slave owners claimed compensation?

Answer 2

46,000

Question 3

What happened to the price of slaves at the end of the 18th century.

Answer 3

It went up because fewer were being shipped.

Question 4

Which british cities relied heavily on the slave trade?

Answer 4

Liverpool and Bristol

Question 5

Why did the slave industry decline?

Answer 5

Because the economy moved away from sugar and onto cotton which wasn’t grown in the Caribbean.

Question 6

How much of peoples calorie intake came from sugar?

Answer 6

14%

Question 7

How much sugar did people consume per year in 1704?

Answer 7

4 pounds

Question 8

How much sugar did people consume per year in 1800

Answer 8

12 pounds

Question 9

How can it be argued that the slave trade drove the industrial revolution?

Answer 9

It provided cotton to cotton mills and profits from sugar also allowed development

Question 10

Who was Hannah Moore?

Answer 10

A poet and a writer. Member of ‘the blue stockings’.

Question 11

Who did Hannah Moore meet in the Clapham sect.

Answer 11

John Newton

Question 12

What year did Hannah Moore write ‘slavery a poem’?

Answer 12

1788

Question 13

Who was Mary Birkett Card?

Answer 13

She was a Quaker who wrote a poem on the African slave trade.

Question 14

When did Mary Birkett Card write a poem on the African Slave Trade?

Answer 14

1792

Question 15

What was Mary Birkett Card’s poem about?

Answer 15

The boycott of sugar- a slave produced good

Question 16

When was the sugar boycott?

Answer 16

1791

Question 17

How many women stopped buying sugar?

Answer 17

300-400 thousand

Question 18

How many slaves were taken during the slave trade?

Answer 18

10-12 million

Question 19

What was the average life expectancy for a slave?

Answer 19

23

Question 20

What percentage of slaves died per voyage?

Answer 20

20%

Question 21

How many copies of Thomas Clarksons essays were printed and sold?

Answer 21

10,000

Question 22

How many miles did Clarkson travel?

Answer 22

35,000

Question 23

How many slave ships did Clarkson visit?

Answer 23

317

Question 24

How many sailors did Clarkson interview?

Answer 24

3000

Question 25

What was the name of Equiano's book?

Answer 25

'the interesting narrative of Olaudah Equiano'

Question 26

When did Equiano join the son's of Africa group?

Answer 26

1787

Question 27

What were the son's of Africa group march for in 1788?

Answer 27

To support the Dolben Act

Question 28

When was the society for effecting the abolition of slavery formed?

Answer 28

1787

Question 29

In what year did Sharp defend a slave being forced back into slavery?

Answer 29

1771

Question 30

Who wrote 'amazing grace"?

Answer 30

John Newton

Question 31

Which quaker greatly influenced Clarkson?

Answer 31

Anthony Benzet

Question 32

What did Benzet set up in 1750?

Answer 32

An evening class to educate black children.

Question 33

What did Adam Smith argue?

Answer 33

He disagreed with the slave traders he argued it was no longer economically viable.

Question 34

What did Eric Williams argue?

Answer 34

That the slave trade industrialised Britain

Question 35

What did Eric Williams say about English abolitionists?

Answer 35

That they were hypocrites and only wanted abolition for their own gain.

Question 36

What did Eric Williams argue was the cause of the abolition?

Answer 36

Slave revolts

Question 37

What does Seymour Drescher argue?

Answer 37

That Britain committed 'econocide' when they ended the slave trade

Question 38

When did the quakers start to disagree with the slave trade and why?

Answer 38

1657, they believed that everybody was equal before god.

Question 39

When did the quakers make a petition against the slave trade?

Answer 39

1783

Question 40

What are the quakers credited with?

Answer 40

Spearheading a moral crusade against slavery

Question 41

How many slaves was london home to?

Answer 41

10,000

Question 42

Which three key abolitionist individuals were Evangelical christians?

Answer 42

Granville Sharp, William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson

Question 43

When did Clarkson publicise his essay?

Answer 43

1786

Question 44

How much of the UK's annual income was dependent on the slave trade?

Answer 44

24%

Question 45

How many MP's had ties with the west india lobby?

Answer 45

50

Question 46

What became the phrase of the abolition movement?

Answer 46

'Am I not a man and a brother?'

Question 47

In 1787 what percentage of people living in Manchester had signed an abolition petition?

Answer 47

25%

Question 48

Between which years was a bill to abolish the slave trade brought into parliament every year?

Answer 48

1791-1799

Question 49

In the 1780's how much of Bristol's income was from the slave trade?

Answer 49

40%

Question 50

What did Adam Smith argue about free workers?

Answer 50

'Those who are happy will do their best work'

Question 51

What occured in 1/10 slave voyages?

Answer 51

A slave revolt

Question 52

When was the Dolben Act?

Answer 52

1788?

Question 53

Who created publicity of the slave trade?

Answer 53

Josiah Wedgewood

Question 54

How did the American War of Independence create the argument for abolition?

Answer 54

It highlighted the importance of freedom.