History Smuggling 18th c
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- Created on: 05-06-19 11:15
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- Smuggling
- Attitudes to :
- Can't be stopped because it keeps the economy going
- Decline in 19th Century
- Change in laws
- Beginning of organised policing
- Duty of tea cut from 11.9% to 12.5%
- 1840 - Policy of free trade = no more money made from smuggling
- 1820's - establishment of coast guard
- Napoleonic Wars led to building of watch towers on coast of England
- Reasons for increase in 18th Century
- Cost Of War
- Black Market
- Insufficient policing
- Excise duty - 1688 increase to include salt, soap, leather.
- Who were smugglers?
- Labourers = 70%
- Small Farmers = 10%
- Tradesmen, butchers, carpenters
- Wealthy people took place too - (Wine and Tea)
- Robert Walpole - Was involved - Later became prime minister
- Sussex - Organised smuggling.
- Gangs of 40-50 people
- Be done at 2/3 am and finished by 6
- 'duffers' = tea smugglers / used special coats to transport
- 'Hawkers' sold the tea on the streets to customers
- 3 Million Pounds of tea was smuggled to Britain (3 times more than legal amount)
- Attitudes to :
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