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Lost Children of the Empire (Paperback)
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Lost Children of the Empire (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: The British Empire
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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 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. Lost Children of the Empire tells the
remarkable story of the Child Migrants Trust, set up in 1987, to
trace families and to help those involved to come to terms with
what has happened. But nothing can explain away the connivance and
irresponsibility of the governments and organisations involved in
this inhuman chapter of British history.
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