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The number of slaves transported by Great Britain annually in the 1790's
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50,000
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The slave trade route from West Africa to the West Indies and Americas that constituted the second leg of the 'triangular trade'
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Middle Passage
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A Christian denomination led by abolitionist John Wesley, which broke away from the Church of England after Wesley's death
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Methodism
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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 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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An 1834 act that; established a centralised Poor Law Commission under Edwin Chadwick, grouped parishes into Poor Law Unions - each with its own workhouse, replaced overseers with locally elected Poor Law Guardians, and appointed 12 assistant commissioners to coordinate its application
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Poor Law Amendment Act
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A 1799 act that limited overcrowding on slave ships by making permanent the annually passed Dolben Act
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Slave Regulation Act
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The belief in and promotion of the importance of human welfare, altruism, and benevolence, based on moral and rational soundings
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Humanitarianism
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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
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Decline Thesis
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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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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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A piece of anti-Poor Law propaganda produced by an unknown 'Marcus' that suggested Poor Law Commissioners were considering gassing pauper children based on Malthusian fears of overpopulation
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Book of Murder
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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)
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High Risk High Reward
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The radical reformer who believed inadequate government support to be the cause of poverty
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Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
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The number of sailors interviewed by Thomas Clarkson in his collecting of information on the slave trade from 1787 to 1794
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20,000
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An historian and later first prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago whose 1944 work 'Capitalism and Slavery' proposed that economic change was the driving force behind the abolition of the slave trade
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Eric Williams
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The percentage of able bodied paupers who were in the workhouse by the 1840's
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1.7%
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A captain acquitted of murdering a female slave aboard his ship in 1792, which established the precedent that a ship's crew could be tried for murdering a slave, the killing of whom had been deemed permissible in certain circumstances by the Zong case
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John Kimber
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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
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Freetown
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