The Fight to Abolish Slavery 02

1. What was the slogan of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade?

   • Am I not a man and a brother
   • Live and let live
   • Men are born equal
   • Souls without chains

2. Who organised a sugar boycott in Leicester to protest against slavery?

   • Amelia Jackson
   • Elizabeth Heyrick
   • Patience Sturgess
   • Sarah Cahill

3. Which runaway slave was legally set free, thanks to Granville Sharp?

   • Jackson Short
   • Jeremy Tall
   • Jonathan Strong
   • Joshua Stout

4. 1791 saw a huge slave revolt on which island?

   • Guadeloupe
   • Martinique
   • St Domingue
   • St Kitts

5. Who led the rebels on St Domingue?

   • Antoine L'Oratorio
   • Etienne Symphonique
   • Louvain L'Orchestre
   • Toussaint L'Ouverture

6. An 1831 slave uprising on Jamaica was led by .......

   • Arthur Knight
   • Charles Payne
   • Matthew Chalmers
   • Samuel Sharpe

7. Anti-abolitionists thought that freed slaves would .......

   • attack their former owners
   • kill anti-abolitionists
   • refuse to work and become lazy
   • set fire to plantations

8. The British slave trade was abolished in which year?

   • 1803
   • 1807
   • 1811
   • 1814

9. Slavery itself was abolished in all British colonies in which decade?

   • 1810s
   • 1820s
   • 1830s
   • 1840s

10. Following abolition, what did the slave owners receive?

    • Compensation
    • Death threats
    • Knighthoods
    • Nothing

Quiz written by Jan Crompton