 | Samuel Kydd - 1857 - 368 pages
...apprentices depended entirely on the will of their masters; in very many instances their labour was limited only by exhaustion, after many modes of torture had been unavailingly applied to force continued action; their food was stinted, coarse, and unwholesome; in "brisk times," their beds (such as they... | |
 | Richard Whately Cooke-Taylor - 1891 - 556 pages
...afterwards "depended entirely on the will of their masters." . ..." In very many instances their labour was limited only by exhaustion after many modes of torture had been unavailingly applied to force continued action " . . . . and " in brisk times their beds, such as they were, were never cool, (for) the mills... | |
 | Bernhard Ringrose Wise - 1892 - 428 pages
...would come and examine their height, strength, and bodily capacities, exactly as did the slave-dealers in the American markets. After that the children were...cheap, and their places could be so easily supplied. It was often arranged by the parish authorities, in order to get rid of imbeciles, that one idiot should... | |
 | Robert Blatchford - 1895 - 200 pages
...nominally as apprentices, but in reality as mere slaves, who got no wages, and whom 1t was not worth while to feed and clothe properly, because they were so...cheap and their places could be so easily supplied. It was often arranged by the parish authorities, in order to get rid of imbeciles, that one idiot should... | |
 | Henry de Beltgens Gibbins - 1896 - 582 pages
...apprentices, but in reality as mere slaves, who got no wages, and whom it was not worth while even to feed or clothe properly, because they were so cheap, and their places could be so easily supplied. It was often arranged by the parish authorities, in order to get rid of imbeciles, that one idiot should... | |
 | H. de B. Gibbins - 1897 - 408 pages
...apprentices, but in reality as mere slaves, who got no wages, and whom it was not worth while even to feed or clothe properly, because they were so cheap and their places could be so easily supplied. It was often arranged by the parish authorities, in order to get rid of imbeciles, that one idiot should... | |
 | National Association of Cotton Manufacturers (U.S.) - 1898 - 476 pages
...received afterwards depended entirely on the will of their masters. In very many instances their labor was limited only by exhaustion after many modes of torture had been unavailingly applied to force continued action. Discrimination of sexes was not regarded. Vice, disease and death luxuriated in those receptacles... | |
 | 1898 - 752 pages
...received afterwards depended entirely on the will of their masters. In very many instances their labor was limited only by exhaustion after many modes of torture had been unavailingly applied to force continued action. Discrimination of sexes was not regarded. V1ce, disease and death luxuriated in those receptacles... | |
 | Allen Clarke - 1899 - 200 pages
...apprentices, but in reality as mere slaves, who got no wages, and whom it was not worth while even to feed or clothe properly, because they were so cheap, and their places could be so easily supplied. It was often arranged by the parish authorities, in order to get rid of imbeciles, that one idiot should... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard - 1919 - 140 pages
...as mere slaves, who got no wages, and whom it was not worth while even to feed or clothe properly, F because they were so cheap, and their places could be so easily supplied." These little slaves worked day and night in relays, so that the beds in which they slept never cooled,... | |
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... in the American markets. After that the children were simply at the mercy of their owners, nominally as apprentices, but in reality as mere slaves, who got no wages, and whom it was not worth while even to feed and clothe properly, because they were... 
