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Britain, c1785–c1870: Democracy, Protest and Reform

Humanitarian campaigns and the influence of religion

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Recall questions on the Quakers and the Evangelicals, mass petitioning and the sugar boycott, women's associations, and the shift to immediate emancipation.

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Which society was founded in 1787 to campaign against the slave trade?

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What role did religious groups play in the movement?

Who and when

What campaigning methods did the abolitionists pioneer?

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  1. 1

    Which society was founded in 1787 to campaign against the slave trade?

    Model answer

    The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, nine of whose twelve founders were Quakers, with Evangelical support.

  2. 2

    What role did religious groups play in the movement?

    Model answer

    Quakers organised early opposition and Evangelical Anglicans framed the trade as a moral and Christian sin, mobilising mass petitions.

  3. 3

    What was the role of the Quakers in abolition?

    Model answer

    They provided much of the movement's organisation, money and early membership, having condemned slaveholding among themselves, and made up nine of the twelve founders of the Abolition Society.

  4. 4

    How did Evangelicalism drive the anti-slavery campaign?

    Model answer

    It held that slavery was a national sin for which God would punish Britain, and its members, the Clapham Sect among them, brought money, parliamentary influence and moral urgency.

  5. 5

    What campaigning methods did the abolitionists pioneer?

    Model answer

    Mass petitioning, national lecture tours, subscription lists, printed images such as the slave ship Brookes, and the consumer boycott of West Indian sugar.

  6. 6

    How large was the popular petitioning campaign?

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    In 1792 519 petitions with over 390,000 signatures reached parliament, and in 1814 around 1.5 million people signed against the continuation of the trade.

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