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

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A novelist and friend of Charles Dickens who used her novels to speak out against the living and working conditions of the poor

An 1844 order from the Poor Law Commission that banned any outdoor relief

A group of parishes sharing a workhouse, established by the New Poor Law

Those who studied and wrote on the economy of the state

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

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

A portmanteau of two words invented by Seymour Drescher to describe the radical ending of a still very profitable slave trade

The term used by Benjamin Disraeli to describe the doctrine on which the New Poor Law was based

The number of Gilbert Workhouses that survived the New Poor Law

The system commonly criticised for treating the deserving poor and undeserving poor in the same manner

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

A baronet and writer who argued that the poor law encouraged laziness and improvidence

An Igbo who had been enslaved in the 1750's, buying his freedom from his Quaker master in 1766, who became a leading member of the 'Sons of Africa', and campaigned for abolition of the slave trade, publishing his popular and sensational memoirs in 1789

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

A central body in London under secretary Edwin Chadwick responsible for overseeing the New Poor Law nationally to assure uniformity, replaced in 1847 by the Poor Law Board

The years of the two Parliamentary Select Committees which criticised the Old Poor Law for; the ineffective administration offered by parishes, the counterproductiveness of its birth or settled status requirements relative to the industrial need for freedom of movement, and the way in which it was overwhelmed in urban areas by the mass influx of poor people

A physician and vicar who argued in 1786 that the poor law prevented people from learning to work hard and support themselves

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

A reverend and early abolitionist, having worked from 1762 - 80 in the West Indies, whose work 'Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves in the British Sugar Colonies' much inspired the work of Thomas Clarkson and was discussed considerably by slaves and planters in the West Indies

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