Edexcel History 3. Poverty, Pauperism, and the Slave Trade

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The percentage profit slave trade investors were expected to make in 1807

A government department that superseded the Poor Law Board in 1871, responsible for the Poor Law and public health

The words that appeared on the incredibly popular abolitionist symbol of the slave medallion, designed and manufactured under Josiah Wedgwood

A work by Friedrich Engels which heavily criticised the New Poor Law amongst other things

A Christian denomination led by abolitionist John Wesley, which broke away from the Church of England after Wesley's death

The cost of housing a pauper in a workhouse compared to providing outdoor relief by 1862

The variation of the Old Poor Law criticised for removing any incentive farmers had to pay higher wages, and its somewhat higher cost - causing an increase in the poor rate

The amount of money Glasgow's merchants were owed by planters by 1776 as a result of volatility in the agricultural market

An 1845 scandal, investigated and debated by Parliament, and heavily publicised by 'The Times' under John Walter, over the abuse and conditions at a Hampshire workhouse

The 1772 judgement of the Somersett vs Stewart case which ruled that there was no allowing for slavery in England and Wales, and thus - in effect - any slave who entered the said territories was free

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The number of petitions from across the country that were assembled in support of abolition of the slave trade in 1792

That which the likes of Seymour Drescher and James Walvin argued was more important in many parts of the country than evangelicals and non-conformists in pressuring for abolition

The percentage of slave trading voyages that encountered some kind of slave revolt

The slave port which returned an abolitionist MP in 1806

A system of providing relief for the poor, set up under the 1601 Act for the Relief of the Poor

The number of copies of Samuel Smile's 'Self Help' sold in the first five years of publication

Either of the two regions in which agricultural wages were higher due to competition for labour from industry

An 1807 act that outlawed the slave trade and gave cause to Great Britain to use its influence to pressure other nations to do the same

An evangelical, chairman of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and key figure in the Somersett, and Zong cases

The name contemporaneously given to the Clapham Sect (1780's to 1840's)