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 number of Gilbert Workhouses that survived the New Poor Law

The Anglican Bishop of Chester (1776 - 87) and later of London (1787 - 1809) and first senior clergyman to vociferously challenge slavery, being very supportive of the Clapham Sect

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 radical reformer who believed inadequate government support to be the cause of poverty

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

Those unions of parishes that often found themselves financially unable or just unwilling to build a workhouse

The Napoleonic economic blockade of Great Britain which made the West African market particularly vital for the British economy

The demographic that was particularly active in promoting the West Indian sugar boycott

An 1858 group that made unofficial inspections of workhouses

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Those who often supported abolition out of a desire to save the souls of slaves and masters alike

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

An historian who has emphasised the interlocking roles of a variety of factors in bringing about the abolition of the slave trade

The two men that coordinated the abolitionist campaign between the House of Lords and House of Commons receptively from 1806 - 06

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

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

That which was often provided for children in the workhouse by the 1870's

The number of the 30 Liverpool merchant houses that had gone bankrupt by 1788

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

The view of some enlightenment thinkers, that non-Europeans including West Africans, were 'children of nature' and innocent of 'Old World corruption'