HIST-301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 57: Olaudah Equiano, Clapham Sect, The Motto
9 Oct 2020
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The campaigners had the crew of the zong slave trade ship tried for murder, but they failed. William wilberforce and thomas clarkson were the leaders of the clapham sect. A group of philanthropists and social workers that worked with the church of england. Wilberforce used his position to bring a series of bills for the abolition of the slave trade before parliament. This idea gained ground at the popular grassroots level with public meetings, anti-slavery rallies, sermons, and a new type of mass politics. Olaudah equiano: a freed slave who was a major protagonist in the british abolitionist movement. The motto "am i not a man and a brother" is engraved and printed. Abolition intersects with the enlightenment and the thoughts of liberty and freedoms. Evangelical christians were shocked at the lifestyle that slaves were put under. Establishment of a new colony in sierra leone was for freed slaves to live in peace.
