Slavery

Individuals:

• who was Olaudah Equiano?

  a freed slave - he campaigned for the abolition of slavery

• what was Wiliam Wilberforce the leader of?

  the slave trade movement in Britian

• what did Abraham Lincoln do?

  ended slavery in 1865

• what group was Harriet Tubman part of?

  the Underground Railroad

• Thomas Clarkson - leading campaigner - slave trade abolition

• what does civil rights mean?

  everyone has social and political freedom

• what was the middle passage?

  the journey transporting slaves between Africa and the Americas

• what was a plantation?

  a large estate that grew crops - sugar or tobacco - where enslaved had to work

• when did the Transatlantic slave trade happen?

  16th-19th centuries / 1700-1900

• when was the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade created (by Thomas Clarkson)

  1787

• when did the Slave Trade Act take place?

  1807

• when did the Slavery Abolition Act take place?

  1833

• in 1863 the emancipation proclamation was declared, it stated that all enslaved persons in the Southern states of America were freed

• in 1865 Lincoln was assassinated and slavery “came to an end” - the American Civil War also ended

• in 1865 the 13th Amendment was declared a law in America - it made enslaving people illegal