Posted by kyle on Sunday, April 15, 2012 at 4:05am.
"chantelle" needs to learn NOT to copy and paste from any website without citing her source. To leave copied words uncited is PLAGIARISM. Please do NOT do this on Jiskha's boards.
"Slavery in Britain and Ireland dated from before Roman occupation. Chattel slavery virtually disappeared after the Norman Conquest. It was finally abolished by the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 (which made some exceptions for other parts of the British Empire). From the 17th century to the 19th century, workhouses took in people whose poverty left them no other alternative. They were employed under forced labor conditions. Workhouses took in abandoned babies, usually presumed to be illegitimate. When they grew old enough, they were used as child labour. Charles Dickens represented such issues in his fiction. A life example was Henry Morton Stanley. This was a time when many children worked; if families were poor, everyone worked. Only in 1833 and 1844 were the first general protective laws against child labour, the Factory Acts, passed in Britain."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Britain_and_Ireland
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