Who wrote petitions to the British Parliament and launched a sugar boycott in their effort to abolish slavery?
A. the Estates General
B. Quakers
C. suffragettes
D. the sans-culottes
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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
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Quakers wrote petitions to the British Parliament and launched a sugar boycott in their effort to abolish slavery.
Option: ( B).
Explanation:
- Sugar movement was referred to as one of the successful form of campaigns against the Abolitionist movement.
- The movement encouraged British especially women not to purchase or even use products that were produced by slaves in the West Indies.
- A particular reference was made for sugar and close to 300,000 people went on to boycott sugar. The demand of sugar fell down at an alarming level.
- Even in 1971 an anti- sugar pamphlet was published.
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