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*Tactics Of The Abolitionist Group - Coggle Diagram
*Tactics Of The Abolitionist Group
Sons of Africa
The sons of Africa were a small group of Africans who had escaped slavery and formed an abolitionist group.
Included Olaudah Equiano and Ottabah Cugoana
Equiano toured the country to promote his autobiography
Cugoano published a book called "Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Human
Cugoano argued with other important abolitionists such as William Wilberforce
Hannah moor .
Figure in the anti slavery movement.
wrote a poem on slavery
"Whenever to Africa's shore I turn my eyes
horrors of the deepest ,deadliest guilt arise
I see more than the imagination shown
the burning village and the blazing town
see the poor victim torn from social life
see the scared infant,see the shrieking wife!
see the poor wretched, dragged by hostile hands
to distant tyrants sold in distant lands "
Slavery, a poem, by Hannah Moore
The sugar boycott. woman played a crucial role in the sugar boycott because at that time, cooking was a women's job. women persuaded grocers to stop selling sugar produced by enslaved - from 1825 to 1829 ish
Mary prince.
The first woman to write an autobiography about her life as a slave
women were initially excluded from the abolitionist slave organisation, so they formed their own
The female society for Birmingham
The female society for Birmingham did the boycott
Petitions
The first petition that was sent to parliament was sent in 1783
During 1787 and 1788, over 100 petitions were presented to parliament.
During 1787 and 1788, over 60000 signatures were signed on the petitions
The first petition was signed by 273 Quakers
Just about every town and city organised a petition against the slave trade at one time or another
After the first Abolition Bill was rejected in 1791, petitions were flooded into parliament.
By 1792, the abolitionists had presented 519 petitions against slavery, these included over 390,000 signatures.
lobbying
in the 1770s, Quakers regularly lobbied MPs to try to persuade them of the evils of Atlantic slavery
in 1788, Olaudah Equiano led a delgation to the house of commons to zupport william dolben's bill to improve conditions on slave ships by limiting the number of inslaved people that the ship can carry
he also spoke to a number of MPs and the prime minister, in support of a law banning the slave tra
abolitionist images
books and pamphlets
atlantic slavery
letter seal " i am not man and a brother"
only some people can read
Poem on Pottery
Health to the Sick, Honour to the brave, success to the lover and freedom to the slave
support for the abolitionists
Mentions slavery
Christian Argument
Church of England, saw nothing wrong with slavery and said it was mentioned many times in the bible, In february 2006 the church of england's bishop voted unanimously to apologise to the descendants of the victims of slavery and there involvement
Quakers also known as the Society of Friends, broke away from the main churches in the early 17th century. They said it went against christian belief when it says "all people were equal in the site of god
Evangelical movement, in 17th and 18th century many christians believed in "treat your neighbour as you would wish to be treated for this reason many opposed to this, even though they still believed black people were inferior to whites.
Bills
Wilberforce attempted to get MPs to accept a bill against slave trade but it was rejected
He tried to get the MPs to accept the bill each year from 1790 to 1806, each time it was rejected.
A bill was passed by the House of commons in 1792, but with an amendment that the ban should be 'gradual'
Speeches
except on rare occasions, speeches to parliament can only be made by people who have been elected to serve as MPs
in 1780, at the age of 21, William Wilberforce was elected to parliament. he was an extremely clever and witty speech maker
In 1783 he met the influential Scottish abolitionist James Ramsay, who told him about the trade. soon after this, Wilberforce experienced what he described as 'intense religious conversion' which caused him to give up gambling and going to clubs.
Wilberforce began to make speeches in support of many good causes but it was the fight against Atlantic slavery that became most important to him
In early 1787, he met Thomas Clarkson and a collaboration was formed for nearly 50 years.
Clarkson collected evidence about Atlantic slavery which he gave to Wilberforce to use in his speaches to parlement
Wilberforce made many speeches about slavery in parliament. He campaigned, on and off, for the next 18 years without success.
violent tactics
Some abolitionists believed slavery was so evil it couldn’t be ended peacefully, so they used violence to try to destroy it