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

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The percentage of paupers in Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire who were receiving relief in a workhouse in 1844

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

The number of Gilbert Workhouses by 1834 covering an area of 924 parishes

The school of thought that argues that the established plantations of Barbados and Jamaica, already having a plentiful population of slaves, wanted abolition of the slave trade as it would suppress competition from foreign colonies as well as newer British ones like Guiana and Trinidad which remained more reliant of slave imports

An 1848 scandal at a Yorkshire workhouse in which sick inmates had been forced to share lice ridden beds with dead bodies for weeks and bed linen sometimes went unchanged for nine weeks

That industry in which wages fell in the 1810's and 20's due to an excess supply of labour (due to population increase) for more limited jobs (due to mechanisation)

An Anglican such as William Wilberforce who emphasised the importance of personal conversion and faith in atonement as a means of salvation

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

Either of the two cities which were are the forefront of Quaker and dissenter abolitionist coordination and organisation alphabetically

A 1799 act that limited overcrowding on slave ships by making permanent the annually passed Dolben Act

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That financial adage, the first part of which - regarding the high cost of setting up and considerable risks that could be encountered - dissuaded some from investing in the slave trade (initials HRHR)

The percentage of workhouses that banned outdoor relief by 1870

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

An 1842 order from the Poor Law Commission that allowed for outdoor relief for the able bodied in exchange for work done for the parish

An American historian and writer of 'Econocide: British Slavery in the Era of Abolition' which emphasised humanitarian, evangelical, and individual pressures over Eric William's 'crude Marxism' (as historian Boyd Hilton put it)

A combination of charities founded in 1869 to coordinate activities on behalf of the deserving poor, believing indiscriminate help encourage dependency

Poor relief, the receipt of which required moving into an institution or workhouse

The founder of a number of homes for destitute children, beginning in 1870

The system under which parishes generally dealt with their poor population by either giving them paid labour (if they were capable of it) or giving them alms (if incapable of work)

A person surviving on poor relief provided through the local parish