Lost Children of the Empire
Philip Bean, "Lost Children of the Empire "
English | ISBN: 0815398182 | 2018 | 206 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
English | ISBN: 0815398182 | 2018 | 206 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
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.
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