Individuals

Question 1

Thomas clarkson

Answer 1

Driving force in educating the public about the wrongs of the slave trade and ensuring that the movement gained widespread support

Question 2

What was Thomas Clarkson’s essay on

Answer 2

“It is unlawful to enslave the un-consenting” inspired prominent parliamentary figures to the cause of abolition - 10000 copies were printed and distributed to members of parliament

Question 3

How far did clarkson travel

Answer 3

Between 1787 and 1794 he travelled more than 35000 miles around Britain to collect evidence of the slave trade and deliver lectures on the subject

Question 4

What did clarksons evidence include

Answer 4

Items from the ships and evidence of the skills of Africans themselves

Question 5

What did clarkson use as propaganda

Answer 5

Acquired a cut through section plan of a slave ship cargo hold which he used as propaganda in 1789 which showed the overcrowded conditions faced by those who were enslaved

Question 6

What was clarksons research assignments

Answer 6

In 1790 he visited 317 ships and spoke to more than 3000 sailors

Question 7

William wilberforce

Answer 7

Persistently introduced a raft of annual abolition bills to parliament after 1791 hwoever used the supporting evidence of Thomas clarkson and the campaigning of Josiah wedge wood

Question 8

When did wilberforce make his first speech to parliament

Answer 8

1789 and was able to secure a select committee to investigate the slave issue

Question 9

What was wrong with wilberfoces bills

Answer 9

He introduced them to late in the season so they had very little time to consider

Question 10

Why was wilberfoce useful

Answer 10

Under the circumstances with War with France in 1793 his underlying conservatism was a valuable resource since the propertied classes in Britain were reluctant to indulge in anything to radical

Question 11

Who was olaudah equiano

Answer 11

An ex slave who was eventually able to by his own freedom

Question 12

When did equiano publish his own biography

Answer 12

1789 “ the interesting narrative of the life of olaudah equiano which offered a first hand account of the slave trade

Question 13

What did he join in 1787

Answer 13

The sons of Africa group which worked alongside abolitionists and publicised. The cause through touring and lobbying
In 1788 they organised a march on par;aimed

Question 14

Impact of equiano

Answer 14

Dispelled misconceptions of Africans, since many British people the continent of Africa was uncivilised place

Question 15

Granville sharp

Answer 15

Used his political skill, legal knowledge and social contacts to become the leading defender of african people in London
And formed society for affecting the abolition of the slave trade

Question 16

What did sharp do in 1771

Answer 16

Defended James Somerset (a slave ) who had been brought from Jamaica to Britain - he attempted to run away but recaptured and sent back to Jamaica and after a legal battle it was decided that a master had no right to force an enslaved person to return to a foreign country

Question 17

Ottabah Cuguano

Answer 17

Captured and sold into slavery at the age of 13 in present day Ghana and skipped to Grenada and 1772 he purchased by an English merchant who took him England

Question 18

What did cuguano publish

Answer 18

1787 published an account of his experiences “narrative of the enslavement of a native of Africa” which reached George III, Edmund Burke

Question 19

James Ramsey

Answer 19

Navy ships doctor who saw the suffering of slaves in 1759 when he treated over 100 victims
Then became an Anglican minister on the island of st Kitts where he welcomed black and white

Question 20

What did Ramsey write

Answer 20

An essay on the treatment and conversion of African slaves in the British sugar colonies + published an inquiry into the effects of putting a stop to the African slave trade 1784

Question 21

Ignatious sanchos

Answer 21

Born in 1729 on a slave ship in the mid Atlantic anc 1731 he was brought to England then ran way to work as butler for the duke of montagu
He wrote poetry and two plays frequently about the experience of slavery and once he died his letters were published to over 12000 subscribers

Question 22

How did equiano seem more humane

Answer 22

Married an English women and had two children and died with an estate of £950