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The Slave Trade
- Britain - Africa (1)
- Goods
- cloth
- pots & pans
- guns & gunpowder
- cloth
- Capture from 1 port
- Found an agent who had dealers
who captured slaves (both african)
- Found an agent who had dealers
who captured slaves (both african)
- Capture from many ports
- Some ships sailed along the coast visiting lots of
agents as many dealers didn't have enough slaves.
- Some ships sailed along the coast visiting lots of
agents as many dealers didn't have enough slaves.
- Other ways of capture
- selling slave for
breaking tribe laws
- During tribal wars
- selling slave for
breaking tribe laws
- Goods
- Africa - Colonies (2)
- 40-70 days middle passage
- Slaves stripped of
clothes and seperated
- Slaves crammed
tightly, holds 1.5m high
- women & children spent time on deck but
the sailors forced them to dance/entertain
- Slaves were woken, washed & inspected,
if ill they were thrown overboard
- Slaves fed to appear healthy
- 1/2 pint water
- rice, yams & horse-beans
- 1/2 pint water
- Sleeping difficult, slaves whipped to calm down
- only 1 bucket for the loo, many
couldn't access due to chains
- Illness/disease common
- sea sickness/sun stroke
- dysentry common
- most feared was small pox
- sea sickness/sun stroke
- The Sale
- auction sale
- Grab n Go
- healthy slave = £60
sick/old slave = £2
- auction sale
- 40-70 days middle passage
- Plantation Life
- Housing
- not given much
time/space to build
- often close to the big house
- not given much
time/space to build
- Food
- grew own food
- cut own wood
- could sell food to sailors/market
- grew own food
- Freetime
- field hands had
sundays off
- holidays off
- field hands had
sundays off
- Religion
- secret services
in the woods
- Mixed African/Christian
- Had to go to church
- secret services
in the woods
- Slaves
- Field slave
- driver
- sugar factory slave
- house slave
- Field slave
- Housing
- Punishments
- to control
slaves/power
- whipping most common
- branding
- tied up
- starved
- put in shackles
- limbs cut
off/killed for
severe 'crimes'
- to control
slaves/power
- Effects on Africa
- 12m taken 18th-19th cent
- decline in population (men)
- more wars due to guns/pwder
- Halt on industrial progress
- 12m taken 18th-19th cent
- Effects on Britain
- 1630-1807 £12m
- created jobs
- wealthy merchants
invested in
land/estates or
bought power in
parliament
- government
benefited by tax
- 1770 31.3m jamaican tax
- 1770 31.3m jamaican tax
- Liverpool
- 1700=50 000
1800= 78 000
- Port used for ships &
cotton manufacturing
- 1757=176 ships
- 1700=50 000
1800= 78 000
- Bristol
- 1700=20 000
1800=64 000
- ports used for ships & sugar
- By the end 2108 ships from bristol-africa
- 1700=20 000
1800=64 000
- Glasgow
- 20 days less Glasgow-Virginia than London
- John Glassford successful tobacco merchant
- 20 days less Glasgow-Virginia than London
- Industry
- guns/powder/shot
increased production
- copper kettles
etc/tobacco
- guns/powder/shot
increased production
- 1630-1807 £12m
- Abolition
- Origins
- Humanitarian
- Religious
- Financial
- safety fears
- racism
- Humanitarian
- Granville Sharp
- chairman of Society...
- Helped Equiano bring Zong
massacre to public attention
- created 1772 law which allowed
slaves to stay in britain once there
- Attempted to found free African state - unsuccessful
- chairman of Society...
- John Newton
- ex-slave ship owner turned abolitionist
- Becomes a vicar
- Writes 'Amazing Grace'
- ex-slave ship owner turned abolitionist
- Thomas Clarkson
- one of the founding
members of the Society...
- Visits ports & ships- records evidence
- bought leg irons, shackles
etc & showed to people
- Also drew pics, measured ships, talks to captains
- publishes findings in books/pamphlets
- one of the founding
members of the Society...
- Olaudah Equiano
- ex-slave- bought his
freedom for £40
- member of the
society.../spoke at
public meetings
- wrote best seller 'the life of
(him) the African'
- ex-slave- bought his
freedom for £40
- William Wilberforce
- represented
the
Society...in
parliament
- Evangelical christian
- Friends with PM
william pitt (younger)
- Introduced 1807 Slave Trade act
- represented
the
Society...in
parliament
- Hannah Moore & the Sugar Boycott
- Evangelical & friend of
Newton/Wilberforce
- Poet, writes 'Slavery',
'Sorrows of Yamba'
- Women could influence fathers/husbands
and buy wedgewood products
- Boycott aimed to hurt slavery profits
- 1792 400 000 boycotting
- Evangelical & friend of
Newton/Wilberforce
- Origins
- Colonies - Britain (3)
- whole journey
could take 1 year
- Goods =
sugar,
tobacco,
ivory/cotton
- If the trade
hadn't made
so much
money it
wouldn't
have lasted
so long
- Thomas Leyland became
a wealthy merchant worth
£70m (today)
- London provided merchants with
financial backing and insurance
- Bank of England/ Loyds/ Barclays
- Bank of England/ Loyds/ Barclays
- could take 18 months
before profit seen
- whole journey
could take 1 year
- Why did it take so long to end?
- Most MPs supported
the trade
- French Revolution made
people fear change
- Many cities benefited
- More money in industry
- less profitability
- Most MPs supported
the trade
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