A Memoir of Robert Blincoe, an Orphan Boy / Sent from the workhouse of St. Pancras, London, at seven years of age, to endure the horrors of a cotton-mill, through his infancy and youth, with a minute detail of his sufferings, being the first memoir of the kind published.

Name: A Memoir of Robert Blincoe, an Orphan Boy / Sent from the workhouse of St. Pancras, London, at seven years of age, to endure the horrors of a cotton-mill, through his infancy and youth, with a minute detail of his sufferings, being the first memoir of the kind published.
Author: John Brown

By John Brown

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An orphan sent from a parish workhouse at seven is apprenticed into cotton mills and subjected to relentless labor, malnutrition, physical injury, and severe discipline. The memoir recounts his childhood and youth in mill bondage, detailing daily routines, abuses by masters, the parochial apprenticeship system that enabled exploitation, and the social and legislative debates surrounding factory labor. Interwoven are eyewitness reports and publisher commentary that draw comparisons between industrial child labor and other forms of coerced labor, argue for reform, and record the subject’s later life in Manchester.

About the Author

John Brown

John Brown was a Scottish author and physician, known for his compassionate writings that often focused on the lives of the underprivileged. His notable work, "A Memoir of Robert Blincoe, an Orphan Boy," provides a harrowing account of child labor in the 19th century, shedding light on the plight of orphans in industrial England. Brown also wrote extensively on themes of health and spirituality, as seen in his works "Health: Five Lay Sermons to Working-People" and "Christ: The Way, the Truth, and the Life." His essays and stories, including "Rab and His Friends," reflect his deep empathy and commitment to social reform.