Unit 21: Paper 3 (HL) — History of Africa & the Middle East
Topic 21.7: The slave trade in Africa and the Middle East (1500-1900) Questions
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Choose the correct answer: Which system, granted by the Spanish crown, licensed merchants to supply enslaved Africans to Spanish colonies?
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Choose the correct answer: Which English chartered company organised shipping, financing and trading posts on the West African coast?
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Which British MP led decades of parliamentary campaigning against the Atlantic slave trade from the 1780s onward?
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Choose the correct answer: What is the best description of the 'gun-slave cycle'?
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Choose the correct answer: Which coastal East African trading town is named in this topic as part of the pre-existing Arabia-Swahili trade network before it became a major slave market hub?
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Choose the correct answer: In which year did Sultan Seyyid Said move the Omani capital to Zanzibar?
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What was the main limitation of the 1833 Abolition of Slavery Act?
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In which year was the major slave market at Zanzibar closed under British pressure on Sultan Barghash?
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Discuss the role played by chartered trading companies and state-licensed systems in the growth of the Atlantic slave trade.
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To what extent was economic self-interest, rather than humanitarian conviction, the main reason for the decline of the Atlantic slave trade?
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Evaluate the impact of the 1807 Slave Trade Act and the 1833 Abolition of Slavery Act on the ending of slavery in the British Empire.
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Analyse the relationship between anti-slavery legislation and European colonial expansion in Africa in the nineteenth century.
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Which 1885 agreement saw European powers publicly commit to suppressing the slave trade in Africa while dividing the continent into colonies?
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Examine the reasons for the decline of the East African slave trade in the second half of the nineteenth century.
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What alternative export gave West African merchants a replacement income as the Atlantic slave trade declined?
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Evaluate the claim that economic factors were more important than moral factors in ending the East African slave trade.
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Examine the reasons why warfare between African states contributed to the growth of the slave trade.
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Analyse the social consequences of the slave trade for the societies that supplied enslaved people.
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Evaluate the significance of Sultan Seyyid Said in the growth of the East African slave trade.
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Compare and contrast the causes of the Atlantic slave trade and the East African slave trade.
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