What was Mary Prince the first black woman to do?
Write a book in English
Become a Member of Parliament
Join the merchant navy
What was the occupation of most Africans in 18th century Britain?
Servants
Seamen
Merchants
Why did many Asian and African men end up living in ports such as Cardiff, Liverpool and London?
They were navvies whose contracts had ended
They were refugees
They were merchant seamen who were unable to return home
Why did many foreign seamen join merchant crews during the Napoleonic Wars?
Because so many ships had been sunk and seamen lost
Because they wanted to see the world
Because the British crews had been forced to join the Royal Navy
How do we know that the black population was widely spread across Britain?
From parish records
From newspaper accounts
From autobiographies
Which parts of Britain had the first multicultural working-class communities?
Villages in the south of England
Midland cities
Industrial ports
Who were the 'Black loyalists'?
Black activists in the labour movement
Former slaves who fought for the British in the American War of Independence
Writers of autobiographies describing their enslavement
What was the judge's decision in the James Somerset case?
That James Somerset could not be enslaved while living in Britain
That James Somerset could be enslaved while living in Britain
That James Somerset should be sent back to enslavement in the West Indies
Who were the Lascars?
Irish railway builders
Jewish tailors
Asian merchant seamen
Which black Briton was a Chartist leader?
William Cuffay
William Davidson
Olaudah Equiano