Hughestown, PennsylvaniaBreaker boys, No. 9 BreakerRooms full of small boys picking slate all day. Where were their fathers, and their schools?The Pennsylvania Coal Company's Number 9 Breaker; Lewis Hine photographed its breaker boys, including the smallest, Angelo Ross, in 1911.
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Child Labor & Repopulation · Liverpool, United Kingdom (approx.)
Home Children: 150,000 from Britain
The open question
150,000 children shipped out of Britain to fill the colonies. Same window, same idea. Coincidence?
On the record
Home Children was a British child migration scheme operating from the 1600s to the 1970s, under which more than 150,000 children were sent from the United Kingdom to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Rhodesia and South Africa. The practice of sending poor or orphaned children to British colonies began in 1618, but gained momentum in the late 19th century.
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