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

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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
St. Domingue
That denomination which petitioned Parliament in 1783 to abolish the slave trade as a result of the Zong Massacre
Quakers
A factory reformed and opponent of slavery who argued that the ruling class had a duty to protect the vulnerable, losing his job and spending time in debtors prison due to advocating strikes and sabotage over factory conditions and the New Poor Law
Richard Oastler (1789 - 1861)
A commitment to avoid alcohol by members of the temperance movement
The Pledge
A trade licence given by the Spanish Crown by the Treaty of Utrecht to Great Britain from 1713 to 1750 via the South Sea Company, that granted the British a near monopoly on trading slaves and goods to the Spanish American colonies
Asiento
The number of people estimate to have been boycotting West Indian slave-grown sugar by the end of 1791 after a campaign by Thomas Clarkson
300,000
An 1844 order from the Poor Law Commission that banned any outdoor relief
Outdoor Relief Prohibitory Order
A religious group founded in 1650 that was early to advocate for the abolition of the slave trade, more formally known as the Society of Friends
Quakers
He who set up a Committee of the Privy Council to investigate the slave trade in 1788
William Pitt the Younger
A Christian denomination led by abolitionist John Wesley, which broke away from the Church of England after Wesley's death
Methodism
The radical reformer who believed inadequate government support to be the cause of poverty
Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
The factor by which those in the South of England received poor relief compared to those in the North of England from 1802 - 03
Double
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
Williams School
Support given to paupers locally, either as outdoor or indoor relief
Poor Relief
A 1787 pamphlet by Thomas Clarkson, written to launch a publicity campaign on behalf of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade
A Summary View of the Slave Trade
A late 1830's movement - concentrated mostly in Northern England - that coordinated opposition to the imposition of the New Poor Law under the likes of people such as Richard Oastler and John Fielden
Anti-Poor Law Movement
The capital of Sierra Leone, founded in 1792 by John Clarkson (brother of Thomas Clarkson) and African-American slaves freed during the American Revolution, on the work of the likes of Granville Shark and Olaudah Equiano
Freetown
Eric Williams' interpretation that the slave trade ended as it was becoming increasingly unprofitable for both traders and planters in an age of industrial capitalism
Decline Thesis
The two years in which poor relief acts were passed, that required qualification for said relief to be approved by two justices of the peace rather than one, reducing the risk of sympathetic justices of the peace approving spurious claims
1818 and 1819
Those who often supported abolition out of a desire to save the souls of slaves and masters alike
Evangelicals
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