Slavery facts

Question 1

Abolition of the slave trade in Britiain

Answer 1

1807

Question 2

What was the name of the Elizabethan seafarer who hijacked slave ships to sell them for profit?

Answer 2

John Hawkins - shows how economically viable the slave trade still was for Britain, even two decades later

Question 3

How many slave ships left British ports in the 1780s? How many slaves did they carry?

Answer 3

1000, ships, 300,000 slaves

Question 4

When did the Quakers organise their committee against the slave trade? How many members did it have?

Answer 4

1783, 23 people were in the committee

Question 5

How many people signed the Quakers’ petition?

Answer 5

273

Question 6

In what year were 10,000 copies of a Quaker pamphlet handed out to MPs, the royal family and the general public?

Answer 6

1784

Question 7

How many slaves lived in London as servants for the wealthy?

Answer 7

10,000

Question 8

Name some prominent Evangelicals

Answer 8

Granville Sharp, Thomas Clarkson

Question 9

Who was Jonathan Strong?

Answer 9

He was a slave who was beaten by his master, and later aided by Granville Sharp in 1767

Question 10

What year did Clarkson publish his essay?

Answer 10

1786

Question 11

Who was William WIlberforce?

Answer 11

MP for Hull

Question 12

Wilberforce introduced abolition bills to the Parliament every year following which year? Votes?

Answer 12

• 1791, these continued ‘til 1799

- His 1791 bill was defeated by 163 votes to 88

Question 13

What year was the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade founded and by whom?

Answer 13

1787, Clarkson

Question 14

How many branches of ‘the Society’ were set up?

Answer 14

1200

Question 15

What was the main cash crop of Britain?

Answer 15

Sugar

Question 16

What year did the Zong case happen and when was it taken to court?

Answer 16

1781, 1783

Question 17

How many slaves were thrown overboard from slave ship Zong?

Answer 17

133

Question 18

Who was the captain of slave ship Zong?

Answer 18

Luke Collingwood

Question 19

In the 1780s, how much of the country’s annual income (%) was dependent on the slave trade?

Answer 19

24%

Question 20

How many MPs were tied to the West India Lobby by the late 1700s?

Answer 20

50 MPs, including one who later became the Mayor of London

Question 21

Famous propaganda pieces

Answer 21

Wedgewood’s ‘Am I not a man and a brother’ pin, diagram of slave ship Brookes

Question 22

In 1792, how many petitions were signed?

Answer 22

519

Question 23

In 1787, how many of Manchester’s population of 50,000 people signed a petition for abolition?

Answer 23

10,700

Question 24

What year did the Haitian revolution start?

Answer 24

1791

Question 25

What happened during the Haitian revolution? (casualties, plantations burned)

Answer 25

A slave called Toussaint L'Ouverture led a rebellion against plantation owners, killing 4000 people and burning 180 plantations

Question 26

What year did Wilberforce reissue his bill?

Answer 26

1804

Question 27

When Wilberforce reissued his bill, whose support did he gain?

Answer 27

William Pitt, William Grenville

Question 28

Who was William Grenville?

Answer 28

Replaced William Pitt in 1806

Question 29

What year was the Abolition Act passed?

Answer 29

1807

Question 30

How many slave ship voyages took place between the 16th and 19th centuries?

Answer 30

More than 35,000

Question 31

By the 1790s, which city has developed the largest slave-trading port in the world? What fraction of European trade did they claim to?

Answer 31

Liverpool, 3/7

Question 32

In Bristol, what % of people's income was slave based in the 1780s?

Answer 32

40%

Question 33

Between periods 1784-86 and 1805-07, what % of Britain's textile output went abroad?

Answer 33

87%

Question 34

What years were Britain at war with France and how did that affect them?

Answer 34

1793-1815, British manufacturers had to rely on African markets due to the war blocking trade with European markets

Question 35

By the end of the 18th century, how much was the slave trade making in Britain?

Answer 35

£3 million

Question 36

What was the average return (%) of a voyage?

Answer 36

20-50%

Question 37

Name a prominent bank that funded the slave trade throughout the 17th and 18th centuries?

Answer 37

Heywood's in Liverpool

Question 38

Average return (%) of a voyage in Liverpool?

Answer 38

100%

Question 39

What year did the slave ship Ann first take voyage?

Answer 39

1753

Question 40

How much did it cost to fit out slave ship Ann?

Answer 40

£3153

Question 41

How much did slave ship Ann make during its voyage?

Answer 41

£8000

Question 42

Overall, what was the profit of slave ship Ann, taking the cost to fit it out into consideration?

Answer 42

£4847

Question 43

On average, how many slave ships saw revolts by slaves?

Answer 43

1 in 10

Question 44

By 1776, merchants in Glasgow were in how much debt from American partners?

Answer 44

£1.3 million

Question 45

In Liverpool, merchants lost how much between the years 1772-78?

Answer 45

£700,000

Question 46

How many of the 30 leading merchant houses in Liverpool went bankrupt by 1788?

Answer 46

12

Question 47

What domestic industries did the slave trade support, in which their goods were traded in return for slaves?

Answer 47

Lancashire's textiles industry, Birmingham's ironmongery industry

Question 48

What % of Britain's annual income was from the trade of goods made by domestic industries?

Answer 48

5%

Question 49

What year was the Dolben Act passed and what did it do?

Answer 49

1788, restricted the number of slaves allowed on a ship and allowed a doctor on board to maintain the health of the slaves

Question 50

What year was the African Association established?

Answer 50

1788

Question 51

What year was Equiano's autobiography published?

Answer 51

1789

Question 52

What was William Wilberforce inspired by to get involved with the abolition movement?

Answer 52

Clarkson's essay

Question 53

How many copies of Clarkson's essay were printed?

Answer 53

10,000

Question 54

When did Wilberforce first take an interest in the abolition movement?

Answer 54

In 1784 when he helped his friend James Ramsey, a ship's surgeon, to publish a pamphlet on the experiences of slaves in the colonies

Question 55

How many miles did Clarkson travel between 1787 and 1794 to give speeches on the slave trade to the general public?

Answer 55

35,000 miles

Question 56

In 1790, how many slave ships did Clarkson visit?

Answer 56

317

Question 57

In 1790, how many sailors did Clarskon speak to? Example of a sailor?

Answer 57

More than 3000, including Isaac Parker, who served on slave ship Melampus and gave evidence of slave poaching

Question 58

What year did Wilberforce make his first speech on abolition to Parliament?

Answer 58

1789

Question 59

When did Equiano join the Sons of Africa group (extensive touring, parliamentary lobbying)? Alongside who?

Answer 59

1787, Quobna Ottobah Cugoano

Question 60

Upon Equiano's death in 1797, he left an estate worth how much?

Answer 60

£950, which is about £80,000 now

Question 61

When did the American War of Independence end? What did it mean for Britain?

Answer 61

1783, the loss of a significant colony vital to the British Empire

Question 62

In 1776, approximately what % of the population of the 13 American colonies were of African descent?

Answer 62

20%

Question 63

Republicanism

Answer 63

An ideology which maintains a society and government where the head of state is a chosen representative of the people rather than the people being subjects of the head of state

Question 64

When was the Dolben Act made permanent?

Answer 64

With the passing of the Slave Regulation Act of 1799

Question 65

When did Napoleon reintroduce the slave trade into French colonies?

Answer 65

1802

Question 66

When did the French government originally abolish the slave trade? Why did they do this?

Answer 66

1794; to secure their principles on which their revolution was fought: liberty, fraternity and equality

Question 67

When was the Seditious Meetings Act passed?

Answer 67

1795

Question 68

What were the 'treason trials'?

Answer 68

1793-94, Thomas Paine and Thomas Hardy (secretary of the London Corresponding Society) were put on trial for their radical opposition to government policy

Question 69

Colonial Assembly

Answer 69

- A formal gathering of the official representatives of the British Crown in each colonial possession - After 1792, they resolved to abandon the use of metal collars for shackling slaves together and also the use of mutilation as a punishment in Jamaica

Question 70

Jamaica slave revolts

Answer 70

- 1793 | - The island had 3000 troops

Question 71

British Virgin Islands revolts

Answer 71

- 1790 | - Subdued easily using both local militia and regular troops