From 1861 Annie Macpherson worked among the matchbox-making children of East London, opening the Home of Industry in Spitalfields and, from the early 1870s, shipping parties of rescued boys and girls to new homes in Canada. Lowe tells the story year by year through Macpherson’s letters, prayers and shipboard reports, in the confident evangelical voice of the movement itself.
A first-hand source on the British child-emigration schemes, judged far more critically today than by their founders. Download the free EPUB.