206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; My Life in a Nutshell by Dorothy Chernikov; 1. An Untold Story 2. "You weren’t supposed to have feelings" 3. The First Exodus 4. "The Child-savers" 5. The Breakdown of Philanthropy 6. Bricks for Empire Building 7. The Wartime Rush 8. Out to Africa 9. Australia: The Lost Souls 10. The Children’s Voices 11. "I’m an orphan. Please help me find my mother" 12. Post-mortem; Further Information; Bibliography; Index
Biography
Philip Bean and Melville Joy
