What Explains the Abolition of the Slave Trade? Importance of Humanitarian Campaign and Religion Flashcards

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The Clapham Sect were members of which branch of Christianity?

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Evangelism

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How did Evangelists spread ideas?

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Through preaching

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Which colony did the Evangelists set up for freed slaves? Was it successful?

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Sierra Leone. Wasn’t successful, free slaves sold themselves into apprenticeships and became slaves again

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Why were Quakers opposed to slavery?

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They had a strong belief in non violence and that God was within each person, therefore it was wrong to enslave another man

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Famous example of a Quaker

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Benezet. He influenced Clarkson and Sharpe’s ideas

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Why was Quaker involvement in the abolition campaign important?

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Because they had access to printing presses so had the ability to publicise their ideas

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Why were the Methodists significant in the Abolition campaign?

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They were popular with the working classes so could spread abolition ideas to the masses

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Who was a significant Methodist anti Slavery campaigner?

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John Wesley

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How could the Unitarian belief system be defined?

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Belief in one God not a trinity

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Which influential individuals were members of the Unitarian Church?

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William Roscoe, MP for Liverpool and wrote anti-slavery poetry
William Smith, MP for Norwich, worked closely with Wilberforce

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Which churches were most popular with the Upper and MIddle Classes

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Quaker and Evangelist

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Which groups worked together?

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Unitarians and Evangelists: In Parliament

Society for the Effecting of the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1787) was made up of Quakers and Evangelists

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Who was the first religious branch to campaign for abolition?

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The Quakers (starting 1657)

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In 1784 how many copies of the Quaker pamphlet on slavery were distributed?

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10,000

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The historian Roger Anstey maintains it was what that meant the abolition of the Slave Trade came about?

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The Society for the Effecting of the Abolition of the Slave Trade (as in 1796 it was nearly passed, despite sugar being at a high profit margin at the time

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Who created the iconic plaque with the kneeling slave and the slogan ‘Am I not a man and a brother’

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Josiah Wedgewood

17
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What society held the support of 50 MPs that opposed the humanitarian campaigns for abolition?

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West India Lobby

18
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In 1792 how many petitions were signed against the slave trade?

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519

19
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In 1787, how many of Manchester’s 50,000 people signed a petition against the Slave Trade?

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10,700

20
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The Sugar Boycott involved how many?

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300,000-400,000 people

21
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What religious group did Josiah Wedgewood belong to?

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Unitarians

22
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Who claimed religion as a reason for maintaining the slave trade? How?

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John Pinney: ‘surely God ordained them for use and benefit of us; otherwise his Divine Will would have been manifest by some particular sign or token’

23
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The Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge had how many slaves in two plantations?

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300