The Earl Who Went Down Into the Mines
In 1838, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, descended into the coal mines of Yorkshire. What he found there broke him. Children as young...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 72:1-7, 10-14.
In 1838, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, descended into the coal mines of Yorkshire. What he found there broke him. Children as young as five crawled on hands and knees through tunnels too narrow for adults, dragging coal carts chained to their waists. Girls of eight hauled loads in total darkness for fourteen hours a day. Their backs were scarred, their lungs blackened, their childhood erased.…
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