Other Facts

Question 1

Impact of Andover scandal

Answer 1

. 1847 - poor law commission abandoned for poor law board

. Did not stop workhouses being built -1851-1866 another 100 built

Question 2

Cost of a workhouse in 1835

Answer 2

E.g workhouse in Banbury housed 300 people built in 1835 cost £6,200

Question 3

Amount of poor relief in the north and south

Answer 3

1802-1803 ten percent received relief in N and 23% in S

Question 4

Royal commission

Answer 4

. Established in 1832

. 9 commissioners inc. Edwin Chadwick

Question 5

Thomas Malthus

Answer 5

Believed poor families should have fewer children to preserve the food supply

Question 6

Thomas Paine

Answer 6

Rights of Man - pension provision for those over 50 and child benefits of £4 a year per child under 14 for 250,000 families

Question 7

Experience of women and children

Answer 7

. By 1821, 49% of working population were children under 20
. 1859 in Wigan a 13 year old girl got her hand caught in the machines, lost her fingers and was sacked
. By 1842, 1/3 of mining force children under 19

Question 8

Impact of Second Reform Act

Answer 8

. Conservatives lost next election
. More than 2.46 million voters - impossible to corrupt
. Political power shifted from wealthiest to largest section of society

Question 9

Growth of banking

Answer 9

. 1784 - 119 banks in britain
.1808 - 800 banks in britain

Question 10

How many British ships took part in the slave trade?

Answer 10

About 10,000 voyages

Question 11

How many people were taken out of Africa

Answer 11

10-12 million people over a 200 year period

Question 12

How many died on slave ships

Answer 12

15%

Question 13

How much space did slaves have on the middle passage?

Answer 13

4 square feet

Question 14

Average life expectancy for a slave on a sugar plantation

Answer 14

23

Question 15

How many refused to buy sugar

Answer 15

Between 300,000 and 400,000 people mainly women refused to buy sugar during the abolition campaign

Question 16

Hannah Moore

Answer 16

. In 1787, she met John Newton and the ‘Clapham Sect’
. She became firm friends with Wilberforce.

Question 17

Women in the abolition society

Answer 17

. 10% of the 1787-8 subscribers were women.
. By 1788, the Abolition Society had 206 female subscribers

Question 18

Why did Adam Smith say slavery was inefficient?

Answer 18

Slave owners had to purchase and maintain slaves year after year as they had a high mortality rate

Question 19

Why did Smith say it was cheaper if slavery was abolished?

Answer 19

Wage labour economy - cheaper to pay a low wage than provide for and buy new slaves

Question 20

Britain’s sugar consumption

Answer 20

. Britain’s annual per capita consumption of sugar was 4lbs in 1704, 18lbs in 1800, 90lbs in 1901 - a 22-fold increase to the point where Britons had the highest sugar intake in Europe.
. Time with biggest increase is when slavery was abolished

Question 21

Slave cost rise

Answer 21

. Price of buying slaves in Arica reached £25 in 1800
. Price for selling slaves in the Americas had not risen as quickly, only £35

Question 22

Enlightenment

Answer 22

The right of one human being to own another

Question 23

How many petitions were submitted to parliament in 1788 and 1793 - how many names?

Answer 23

102 petitions against the slave trade were submitted to Parliament in 1788, rising to 519 in 1792 totalling over 400,000 names

Question 24

How many in Manchester supported Wilberforce’s first bill?

Answer 24

Over 10,000 signatures, further petition in 1792 attracted double the number of signatures

Question 25

How did the American War of Independence help the abolition cause?

Answer 25

. The War of Independence left behind a new political atmosphere where people thought more about human experience
. The loss of an important colony meant their was soul searching in Britain about the failings of slavery

Question 26

What % of ships experienced an insurrection?

Answer 26

10%

Question 27

Average amount of slave revolts on the Carribean

Answer 27

2 per year between 1789-1815