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An abolitionist group of educated Africans in London, closely linked to the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade
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Sons of Africa
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Poor relief in the form of money, food, clothing, or goods that allowed paupers to continue living in their own homes
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Outdoor Relief
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A small but powerful London based federation of planters and merchants which lobbied fiercely to Parliament and government in defence of the slave trade between 1787 and 1807
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West India Lobby
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The number of people in the slave trading city of Glasgow who signed an abolitionist petition in 1792
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13,000
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A journalist who investigated pauperism and poverty from 1849 to 1862, concluding that it was the result of low wages rather than idleness
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Henry Mayhew (1812 - 1887)
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The number of petitions from across the country that were assembled in opposition to the abolition of the slave trade in 1792
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4
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A portmanteau of two words invented by Seymour Drescher to describe the radical ending of a still very profitable slave trade
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Econocide
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An annually appointed parochial officer who administered and supervised the Old Poor Law, subject to monitoring by county magistrates
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Overseer
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That denomination which petitioned Parliament in 1783 to abolish the slave trade as a result of the Zong Massacre
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Quakers
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The religious group that passed a resolution in 1727 condemning slavery and the slave trade at their London meeting
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Quakers
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A former slave, freed after the Somersett Case, leader of London's African community, and the first African to demand an end to the slave trade in 1787 - though likely with the held of Olaudah Equiano
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Quobna Ottobah Cugoano (1757 - after 1791)
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A slave rebellion, the short-term impact of which was to cause opposition to abolitionism due to fears of it causing instability, but the long-term impact of which was to encourage abolitionist support out of a pragmatic concern for such rebellions occurring in British colonies, especially at a time of war
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St. Domingue Rebellion
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A 1786 Cambridge University essay by Thomas Clarkson which brought him into the abolitionist movement and helped convince William Wilberforce to join the cause of abolition, of which 10,000 copies were printed and distributed to MP's and others
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Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species
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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
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Andover Scandal
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Those two West Indian colonies which were at the centre of the English and later British sugar industry chronologically
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Barbados and Jamaica
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The French colony in which the large and vital sugar industry collapsed in 1792 as a result of a large slave rebellion
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St. Domingue
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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
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Speenhamland System
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The ministry of 1806 - 07 that - though little successful in resolving issues around the war with France and Catholic emancipation - was successful in abolishing the slave trade
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Ministry of All the Talents
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The two men that coordinated the abolitionist campaign between the House of Lords and House of Commons receptively from 1806 - 06
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Lord Grenville and William Wilberforce
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The factory reformer who believed the solution to poverty lied in giving people the opportunity to improve themselves through cooperation
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Robert Owen (1771 - 1858)
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