gibbin's

Updated: May 21, 2025

"Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven", He said; and His Church is the inheritor of this tradition "feed my lambs". There were children in Great Britain in the early part of the nineteenth century, and we may see what was done with them by turning to Gibbin's "Industrial History of England": Sometimes regular traffickers would take the place of the manufacturer, and transfer a number of children to a factory district, and there keep them, generally in some dark cellar, till they could hand them over to a mill owner in want of hands, who would come and examine their height, strength, and bodily capacities, exactly as did the slave owners in the American markets.

Upton Sinclair - The Profits of Religion