Slavery Knowledge Quizzes

Question 1

Which slave ship did
Clarkson show an image of?

Answer 1

The Brookes

Question 2

How many of the Brookes leaflets were printed?

Answer 2

7K

Question 3

By 1792, how many anti-slavery petitions had been signed?

Answer 3

Over 519

Question 4

Name another humanitarian
campaigner who helped
Clarkson

Answer 4

Granville sharp

Question 5

Which potter created the ‘am I not a man’ plaque?

Answer 5

Josiah Wedgewood

Question 6

What organisation did
Thomas Clarkson set up with the Quakers and in which year?

Answer 6

‘The society for effecting the abolition of the slave trade’ 1787

Question 7

What process had Europe gone through which moved away from religious teaching?

Answer 7

The enlightenment

Question 8

Which slave ship was involved in the murder of 133 slaves (thrown overboard)?

Answer 8

The Zong 1783

Question 9

How much of Britain’s income was dependent on slave income?

Answer 9

24%

Question 10

How many pamphlets ‘the case of our fellow creatures’ had the Quakers distributed?

Answer 10

10K 1783

Question 11

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

Answer 11

35k

Question 12

How much of bristols income was slave based?

Answer 12

40%

Question 13

What percentage of Britain’s textile output went abroad?

Answer 13

87%

Question 14

What were the British traders profits from slave sales?

Answer 14

£60 million contemporary

Question 15

What were the slave based planting profits?

Answer 15

£450 million contemporary

Question 16

What profit did the
Codrington plantation make each year?

Answer 16

£2,000

Question 17

How many slaves did the codrington plantation have?

Answer 17

276

Question 18

Which countries allegedly (indirectly) threatened profits for Britain’s slave trade?

Answer 18

France and Cuba

Question 19

Between what percentages of profit would the traders get from the slave voyages?

Answer 19

20-50%

Question 20

What ratio of slave ships had revolts?

Answer 20

1 in 10

Question 21

Which MP helped clarkson?

Answer 21

William Wilberforce

Question 22

How much did Equiano buy his freedom for?

Answer 22

£40 or £6,000

Question 23

Where was Wilberforces constituency?

Answer 23

Hull

Question 24

How far did Clarkson travel between 1787-94 (7 yrs)

Answer 24

35k miles

Question 25

When did Wilberforce propose his first bill to abolish the trade?

Answer 25

1791

Question 26

What religion were the main humanitarian campaigners?

Answer 26

Evangelicals -and Quakers?

Question 27

Why could Wilberforce be criticised?

Answer 27

A mouthpiece for clarkson
Gradual abolitionist
Some aristocrats looked down at him

Question 28

What group did Equiano join?

Answer 28

Sons of Africa
12 black men campaigning for the end of slavery

Question 29

When did Equiano publish his autobiography?

Answer 29

1789

Question 30

Who was Elizabeth Heyrick?

Answer 30

‘Immediate not gradual abolition’
Wrote political pamphlets
Criticised mainstream figures
The society dropped the ‘gradual’ phrase

Question 31

When did Britain lose America as a colony?

Answer 31

1783

Question 32

Why did the USA independence war affect trade?

Answer 32

Loss of a market to sell slaves

Question 33

When did napoleon reintroduce the slave trade in France?

Answer 33

1802

Question 34

When was the slave trade abolished in Britain?

Answer 34

1807

Question 35

How long had campaigns for abolition been going on?

Answer 35

1787- when society was set up

Question 36

Which act in 1795 hampered campaigners?

Answer 36

Seditious meetings act- restricted public meetings to 50

Question 37

How many plantations were burned at Saint Domingue?

Answer 37

1k

Question 38

What propaganda did they find in Saint D?

Answer 38

Wedgewoods medallion

Question 39

On St Lucia how many troops did it take to get back control?

Answer 39

12k for 2k slaves in 1803

Question 40

How much did Britain spend to get back control in the Jamaican revolts?

Answer 40

£500k or £12mill