Abolition (1807)

historiography of abolition

the Williams thesis

"econocide"

moral capital

I. An age of (gradual) reform [time line]

-calls for parliamentary reform (John Wilkes)

-Catholic relief

-Regulating Act/ India Act

II. The abolition movement [British abolitionists][BBC site]

Somerset Decision (1772)

James Somerset
Lord Chief Justice Mansfield

Quakers

Evangelical revival

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

national atonement

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 Probable Consequences of its Abolition (1787)
Oladuah Equiano

parliamentary campaign

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

III. Anti-slavery campaign

treaties

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

naval slave squadron

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

"The Two Princes of Calabar" Cast of Characters

Old Town
Amboe Robin John - killed in raid
Ephraim Robin John (Grandy King George) - head of Old Town and brother of Ancona and Little Ephraim
Ancona   Robin John, Little Ephraim Robin John - the two princes

New Town
the Duke family

Old Calabar slave traders
James Berry (held hostage by Old Town traders)
Captain Bivins (eventually had to pay O’Neil for them)
Thomas Jones (helped them in Bristol )
Ambrose Lace (had long-running contacts with the family)
William Floyd (captain of the ship that wrecked)

Masters of the two princes
first master: French physician, Dominica
William Sharp, capt of the Peggy, tricked them into escaping
second master: Captain Thomson, VA
third master: Terence O’Neil, capt of the Greyhound, SC, who took them to Bristol and then sold them to another slave ship bound for VA