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In what year did Britain outlaw the slave trade?
Answer: 1807
Why: The act banned the trade but did not end slavery itself, which Britain abolished in its colonies only in 1833.
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Whose ships carried the most captives across the Atlantic?
Answer: Portugal
Why: Britain came second, its ships carrying about 3.3 million Africans against Portugal's 5.8 million.
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Where did the last known transatlantic slave ships land?
Answer: Cuba
Why: Brazil banned the trade by an 1850 law, and its last known landings of captives came in 1856.
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Which ship's 1839 captive revolt became a Steven Spielberg film?
Answer: Amistad
Why: Former US president John Quincy Adams argued their case before the Supreme Court, which declared them free in 1841.
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Which British port sent out the most slave-trading voyages?
Answer: Liverpool
Why: In the trade's last years, 1793 to 1807, about 85% of British slave voyages sailed from Liverpool.
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What was poet Phillis Wheatley's first name taken from?
Answer: The slave ship
Why: Unable to find a publisher in the American colonies, she had her 1773 book of poems published in London.
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