Lost Children of the Empire
Originally published in 1989. The extraordinary story of Britain's child migrants is one of 350 years of shaming exploitation. Around 130,000 children, some just 3 or 4 years old, were shipped off to distant parts of the Empire, the last as recently as 1967.For Britain it was a cheap way of emptying children's homes and populating the colonies with 'good British stock'; for the colonies it was a source of cheap labour. Even after the Second World War around 10,000 children were transported to Australia - where many were subjected to at best uncaring abandonment, and at worst a regime of appalling cruelty. Lost Children of the Empire tells the…
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Weitere Autoren: Melville, Joy
- ISBN: 978-1-351-17199-1
- EAN: 9781351171991
- Produktnummer: 28781238
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 206 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 46'384 KB
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Philip Bean and Melville Joy
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