USA HISTORY

SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732

RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which abolitionist were best known for winning the case of James Somerset?
A
William Wilberforce
B
Thomas Clarkson
C
Granville Sharp
D
James Ramsey
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -But Granville became an inspiration for others to take up the cause. The most important of these were Thomas Clarkson and William Wilberforce, the two younger men most credited with ending the British slave trade and inspiring the end of legal slavery.

Detailed explanation-2: -1. Frederick Douglass. American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and politician Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey (February 20, 1895 – February 1817) was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey.

Detailed explanation-3: -Granville Sharp (1735–1813) was one of the first British campaigners for the abolition of the slave trade. He was the author of several anti-slavery pamphlets, including A Representation of the injustice and dangerous tendency of admitting the least claim of private property in the persons of men, in England, etc.

Detailed explanation-4: -Frederick Douglass–Abolitionist Leader Douglass’s goals were to “abolish slavery in all its forms and aspects, promote the moral and intellectual improvement of the COLORED PEOPLE, and hasten the day of FREEDOM to the Three Millions of our enslaved fellow countrymen.” How else did Douglass promote freedom?

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