Question

Who wrote petitions to the British Parliament and launched a sugar boycott in their effort to abolish slavery? the Estates General Quakers suffragettes thesans-culottes

Answer 1

Quakers launched a sugar boycott and wrote petitions to the British Parliament in their effort to abolish slavery. This was done in 1791 after Parliament rejected the Abolition Bill. Britain's largest import was slave-grown sugar. The idea was to put economic pressure on slave-dependent industries.

Answer 2

The Sugar Boycott was led by members of the Quaker faith, including important female voices such as Elizabeth Heyrick from Leicester who recognised the ways in which the sugar trade was helping to support the slave trade.