apart from Wilberforce, who were the people that fought to stop the slave trade?

Answer 1

IN the UK, other members of the Clapham Sect with WIlberforce were: Henry Thornton (banker and politician), James Stephen (lawyer), Zachary Macauley (one-time slave manager and Governor of Sierra Leone - and a founder of London University), Lord Teignmouth (ex-Governor-General of India) and John Venn (Rector of Holy Trinity Church on Clapham Common from 1792 to 1813). They were the Anglicns.

Many of their associates were Quakers. In 1787 the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade was founded with Granville Sharp (an Anglican) as president of a mainly Quaker committee.

John Wesley actively encouraged the fight and wrote to Wilberforce: "Go on in the name of God and in the power of his might, till even American slavery (the vilest that ever saw the sun) shall vanish away before it."

Answer 2

Olanduah Equiano (aka Gustav Vassa) was a big player in the abolisionist movement. A reputed ex-slave, he wrote a book on his experiances, and got many politicians, members of the aristocracy and the public to sponser its publishing. Not only did it make people aware of the plight of the slaves, but the list of sponsers were used as a petition to parliament.

he was possibly the most imporatant person in the ablolisionist movement, as his work brought the case of the slaves into the public sphere, and showed that Africans were not the animals they were believed to be, but had the power to be as equally educated, respected and moral as the rest of the human race.

Answer 3

Olaudah Equiano published his autobiography himself and used it as a campaigning tool. He spent some five years travelling the country promoting the book and his anti-slavery message. He was an astute campaigner who knew how to win support from both the general public and decision makers alike. A newspaper at the time reported that Equiano was "well known in England as the champion and advocate for procuring a suppression of the Slave Trade."

Granville Sharp was an early abolitionist and defender of slaves. He argued it was illegal to hold people as slaves in Britain, successfully freeing numerous slaves and protecting Africans in Britain from capture.

Toussaint L'Overture was born into slavery in 1743 as François Dominique Toussaint Bréda in Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti), Toussaint eventually rose to become the leader of the Haitian revolution, the most influential slave rebellion in the world.

Samuel Sharpe, a respected Baptist deacon, triggered a rebellion of thousands of slaves in Jamaica in 1831 by reportedly telling them that they had been freed and that they should stop work and claim their freedom. Before his own execution Sharpe said "I would rather die upon yonder gallows than live in slavery".

Thomas Clarkson was a pivotal figure in the campaigns against the slave trade and then slavery. His research into the conditions and treatment African slaves were forced to endure, revealed the horror of the slave trade to the public. He was a pioneering campaigner, travelling thousands of miles around the country, to raise awareness and seek support for the abolitionist cause.


Elizabeth Heyrick was one of those more radical voices who did much to maintain and revitalize the anti-slavery movement through the 1820s. She sympathised with slave insurrections; campaigned for a sugar boycott which included the shops that sold slave produced goods and not just the products; and inspired the setting up of 70 women's anti-slavery societies.

Answer 4

Igantius Sancho, Mr Equiano (I forget his first name), Hannah More, Granville Sharp, and Thomas Clarkson have all just been honoured with Royal Mail stamps for their role in fighting the slave trade.

Answer 5

Lots of people in different countries.We tend to know those relating to our own country but not others.In the USA the leaders of the Northern states ,the Union,had the abolition of slavery as one of their main objectives and was the reason for the American civil war.In Africa the Lion of Judah,Haille Selassie, the emperor of Ethiopia was one of the major figures in fighting against slavery of blacks by blacks or Arabs.There are lots of instances in the19th century of political resistance to slavery all round the world.

Answer 6

Abraham Lincon was against slavery and fought for the freedom of slaves.

Answer 7

John Clarkson was the main worker. Wilberforce was the front man.

Answer 8

Harriet Tubman is one of the greatest anti-slavers in history. She regularly made trips to Canada with runaway slaves, and Martin Luther King himself said: ''Canada is not merely a neighbor of Negroes. Deep in our history of struggle for freedom, Canada was the North Star." in reference to the underground network Tubman used to help the slaves escape to Canada

Answer 9

I don't know if 'fought' is the right word but you cannot omit the Quakers.

Answer 10

Elizabeth Fry i think