Child sweeps in the Industrial Revolution

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seems stop

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moaning it's still better than it used

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to be how bad was it well we need to

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rewind all the way back to the

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Industrial Revolution the shift to Coal

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powerered cities meant demand for

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chimney sweeps not only skyrocketed but

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chimneys themselves

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narrowed children as young as three or

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four were the only ones who could fit

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they were often orphans sold into the

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hands of adult Master sweeps these small

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children were forced to climb up the

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shoes sometimes naked to reduce the risk

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of being stuck if they did get stuck

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their masters would light a fire

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underneath them supposedly to encourage

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movement it's estimated that one in

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three chimney sweeps didn't make into

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adulthood those who did survive suffered

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from ailments such as deformed spines

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broken bones lung disease and even a

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rare cancer called s wart one of the

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first known occupational cancers

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eventually people for bought back lord

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shawbury a 19th century social reformer

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who campaigned for the rights of poor

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Britains LED activists in pushing for

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Change and in 1864 Britain finally

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banned child chimney sweeps by 1875 the

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practice