The Hawkhurst Gang
Smuggling and the hawkhurst gang
1. From source A we learn that: people smuggled because poor people did not want to pay and “duty tax” on their goods. Also it was believed that there was ‘nothing in the crime of smuggling’. This source is second hand information and it could be false, also it has apart missing which could be useful.
2. When studying this source you should be careful because, firstly it is from a crime and punishment book and therefore not completely about smuggling and therefore probably not limited information.
Secondly, it was written in 1996 by a man named “John Briggs” might be getting this second hand information of the internet or from another book so it may be false information as we do not know where this information came from and therefore this could be false information. The writer of this source is against the smugglers and puts in what his own opinion. He mentions that they are “akin to modern drug barons than freedom fighters” this show us that he was not on their side and that they were not actually fighting for freedom but for the money and because of greed.
3. In source c we learn that: firstly ‘some people regarded smugglers as rough criminals this implies that the smugglers were deadly and where not frightened to use violence. But most poor people ‘had a sneaking sympathy and admiration for them, as they could not afford the tax’. And so people began to pay the smugglers for their goods, simply because they could not afford to buy the ones with tax as the tax rate was so high. They had sympathy for the smugglers because if they are caught they faced the death penalty and the people were just trying to help them.
4. Source E portrays that they were harmful smugglers and is not in agreement with source d which talks about Daniel Chatter and john diamond having worked together. It makes you feel as though they might be friends as when diamond passed through Fordingbridge he shook his hand and gave him a bag of tea.
1. From source A we learn that: people smuggled because poor people did not want to pay and “duty tax” on their goods. Also it was believed that there was ‘nothing in the crime of smuggling’. This source is second hand information and it could be false, also it has apart missing which could be useful.
2. When studying this source you should be careful because, firstly it is from a crime and punishment book and therefore not completely about smuggling and therefore probably not limited information.
Secondly, it was written in 1996 by a man named “John Briggs” might be getting this second hand information of the internet or from another book so it may be false information as we do not know where this information came from and therefore this could be false information. The writer of this source is against the smugglers and puts in what his own opinion. He mentions that they are “akin to modern drug barons than freedom fighters” this show us that he was not on their side and that they were not actually fighting for freedom but for the money and because of greed.
3. In source c we learn that: firstly ‘some people regarded smugglers as rough criminals this implies that the smugglers were deadly and where not frightened to use violence. But most poor people ‘had a sneaking sympathy and admiration for them, as they could not afford the tax’. And so people began to pay the smugglers for their goods, simply because they could not afford to buy the ones with tax as the tax rate was so high. They had sympathy for the smugglers because if they are caught they faced the death penalty and the people were just trying to help them.
4. Source E portrays that they were harmful smugglers and is not in agreement with source d which talks about Daniel Chatter and john diamond having worked together. It makes you feel as though they might be friends as when diamond passed through Fordingbridge he shook his hand and gave him a bag of tea.