Abolition of Slave Trade 1807
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- Reasons for the end of the slave trade in 1807
- Humanitarian Campaigns
- Influence of Quakers
- Had nationwide branches - well organised
- Believed that to harm a human was to harm G-d
- Set up a committee to campaign against slavery.
- July 1783 - 2nd committee set up to publish articles
- Presented a petition to parliament in June 1783 w/ 273 signatures
- 1784 - 10,000 copies of their pamphlet distributed to monarchy, politicians, citizens
- Influence of Evangelical Christians
- Saw slavery as a sin for which you needed to repent
- Thomas Clarkson and Granville Sharp prominent activists
- Link to individual actions - Clarkson's essay, Wilberforce's bills etc
- Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade
- Built out of the Evangelical and Quaker Campaigns in 1787
- Used petitions, propaganda, pamphlets, education campaigns, emotive artworks etc
- In 1792 people signed 519 petitions (Manchester 1787 - 10,700 signatures on one)
- Petitions often signed by cotton workers in industrial cities - even though their livelihoods depended on slavery
- In 1796 a bill was nearly signed in commons to abolish slavery, despite UK benefiting from sugar boom
- Influence of individuals
- Thomas Clarkson wrote an enlightenment essay in 1786
- Succeeded in changing the views of slave owner John Newton
- William Wilberforce presented bills to parliament every year from 1791-99
- Granville Sharp used legal cases to pursue the abolition
- Bought shackles, thumbscrews & handcuffs to display to people to educate them. Believed that the evils of slavery needed to be known to be hated.
- Thomas Clarkson wrote an enlightenment essay in 1786
- Influence of Quakers
- Economic Factors
- Wartime privateering
- Legalised
- Meant that slaves were lost in the middle passage
- Led to slavery being less economically viable
- Less economic viability
- Ships expensive to build
- Although they did reap profits, they were slow
- The ship "Ann" cost £3000 to buld and reaped £4000 profit
- Ships expensive to build
- New colonies discouraged originals
- West Indies started off and now there were colonies in USA which encouraged competition, which they didn't want
- British colonies were too well-stocked with slaves because they were born into it
- Less need to actually transport them
- Wartime privateering
- Humanitarian Campaigns
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