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

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Those officials (in the North of England) whom opposed building workhouses as they were not an efficient solution to the fluctuating demand caused by cyclical depression in industrial areas

A 1795 - 96 conflict in which some Jamaican Maroons (descendants of escaped slaves living in the Jamaican interior) and rebellious slaves fought unsuccessfully against the British and their own Maroon allies in a destructive guerrilla war

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

Those philanthropists who believed in the virtue of self help, also much behind the pressure to abolish the slave trade

The year in which Parliament passed an amended bill by William Wilberforce to abolish the slave trade gradually with a goal of total abolition by 1796

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

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

An historian who has emphasised the role of the abolitionists in securing the end of the slave trade

A government department that superseded the Poor Law Board in 1871, responsible for the Poor Law and public health

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

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A commitment to avoid alcohol by members of the temperance movement

The war in which British defeat effectively wiped out a large part of the British slave trading market

A 1662 act that mandated each person have one legitimate parish of residence which would be the only one responsible for them

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

The number of parishes in England and Wales

The year in which France abolished slavery

The practice turned to by some ship owners during the wars with France as a result of its quicker turnover of profit compared to the slave trade

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

Disorganised rural Southern and Eastern English anti-New Poor Law riots in 1835, such as that in Ampthill, Bedfordshire

The three way trade of; manufactured goods from Great Britain to West Africa to purchase slaves for the West Indies and the Americas, to producer sugar and other commodities for Great Britain