History Smuggling 18th c

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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)

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