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

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That which saw the majority of the meagre parliamentary opposition against it originate from newly enfranchised industrial boroughs

An able bodied person who refused work

The extra cost of rural indoor relief compared to rural outdoor relief by percentage as estimated by historian George Boyer

A political economist who argued for complete abolition of the poor law, as creating a dependent and idle workforce

A 1780 plan for how to regulate and then suppress the slave trade and eventually slavery itself in the West Indies by Edmund Burke, public posthumously, though espousing views people knew he held beforehand

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

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

The founder of the Salvation Army

The number of people in the slave trading city of Glasgow who signed an abolitionist petition in 1792

A never universally implemented condition of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, that anyone who wanted poor relief must enter a workhouse, the premise of which first appeared in Knatchbull's Act

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An abolitionist group of educated Africans in London, closely linked to the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade

A 1787 pamphlet by Thomas Clarkson, written to launch a publicity campaign on behalf of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade

The percentage by which spending fell in some parishes as a result of the New Poor Law

The factor by which those in the South of England received poor relief compared to those in the North of England from 1802 - 03

A home for women who were homeless or had turned to prostitution founded in 1847 by Angela Burdett-Coutts and Charles Dickens

The percentage increase in the population in the South East of England from 1811 to 1831

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

The guiding principle of the New Poor Law which advocated less desirable conditions in workhouses than could be found in any independent living arrangement

An 1833 act that abolished the institution of slavery throughout the British Empire

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