Oct 2 Abolition

I. An age of (gradual) reform

-calls for parliamentary reform (John Wilkes)

-Catholic relief

-Regulating Act/ India Act

reform time line

II. The abolition movement [British abolitionists ]

Somerset decision (1772)
Lord Chief Justice Mansfield

Quakers

Evangelical revival
-emerged within the CoE (John and Charles Wesley; George Whitfield)
-highly influenced by continental Pietism
-Biblicism, crucicentrism, conversionism, activism
-"heart religion"

popular political campaign
Granville Sharp and Thomas Clarkson
Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1787)
Clarkson, A Summary View of the Slave Trade and the Probably Consequences of its Abolition (1787)
tactics of lobby and pressure
women
Wedgewood cameo
Oladuah Equiano

parliamentary campaign
William Wilberforce
Dolbeen's Act (1788)
1792 Abolition bill
war with France / William Pitt
1807

III. Policing the world

treaties
US (1808)
France (1814)
the Netherlands (1817)

naval slave squadron

Sierra Leone (1807) and Liberia (1821) [map]

IV. Abolition of slavery

Anti-slavery society (1823)
women
slave rebellion in Jamaica (1831-32)
abolition (1833)
apprenticeship