Abolition of the Slave Trade
Key people and groups
Somerset Case
Zong Case
Key Facts
Mary Prince
Olaudah Equiano
Hannah Moore
Ottobah Cugoano
Quakers
Working Class People
James Somerset
William Wilberforce (politician)
British Abolitionist Movement
Thomas Clarkson
Phillis Wheatley
Politicians
The ship had to spend three extra days at sea because of a navigation error
The crew was low on supplies so they murdered 131 of the Africans and threw them overboard
It was then used by many politicians in their cases to ban slavery
An overcrowded ship which carried enslaved Africans to America in 1781
Toussaint Louverture
He escaped after two years but captured again and was forced onto a ship to the Caribbean
He asked Sharp for help
He was bought and sent to London in the 1770s
His case was used by Sharp
He was only a young man
Later he gained freedom
James Somerset was taken to Virginia as a slave
As were others
In 1807,a law was made so that you could not buy or sell enslaved people
But many people still traded illegally
*t was called the Abolitionist Movement lead by many famous people
From the 1770s in Britain, a movement was formed
30 years later slavery was banned in most British colonies