This classic work in the literature of poverty was published in
1890 by William Booth (1829 1912), the founder of the Salvation
Army. It was in fact mostly written by the crusading journalist W.
T. Stead (referred to as an anonymous 'friend of the poor' in
Booth's preface), but the practical ideas for relieving the poverty
and squalor of late Victorian British cities are all Booth's own.
Reworking the cliche of 'Darkest Africa', in the first part he
describes the 'submerged tenth' of Darkest England - destitute
and/or criminal - and goes on to suggest the way to 'Deliverance',
which includes better housing, education and training for work, and
the sending of the urban poor to 'colonies', both overseas and in
the British countryside. These proposals had their critics, but
drew wide attention to an appalling aspect of urban life of which
the prosperous classes were barely aware."
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