History A-Level
Humanitarian campaigning and public mobilisation
What Humanitarian campaigning and public mobilisation means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Humanitarian campaigning and public mobilisation
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Campaigners gathered evidence of the Middle Passage's horrors and mobilised public opinion through pamphlets, petitions and the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
Topics that use Humanitarian campaigning and public mobilisation
- What explains the abolition of the slave trade at the end of the period, c1785–1807? (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Abolition campaign organisation
- Industrialisation and the shift to free trade
- Slave resistance and colonial fear
- The influence of Evangelicalism and Quakers
- The profitability of the slave trade and sugar economy
- Wartime politics and radicalism
- First-hand testimony and public opinion
- Parliamentary pressure and legislation
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