The apprenticing of the children of the poor to labor and the requirement that they be taught the elements of religion soon became a fixed English practice (R.
The conditions surrounding the apprenticing of a boy had by the eighteenth century become quite fixed.
Is it probable that the apprenticing of paupers had always given such (301) results?
The apprenticing of boys to a trade, a still older institution, was also much used as a means for training youths for a life in the trades, not only in England and the American Colonies, but throughout all European lands as well.
In all the Anglican colonies the apprenticing of the children of the poor (see R.
Mosely: Evils ofApprenticing the Children of Paupers.
The Report on the Apprenticing of Pauper Children (R.
The compulsory apprenticing of the children of the poor, as we have seen (p.
The demand for cheap labor led to theapprenticing of children to the factories to tend machines, instead of to a master to learn a trade, and there they became virtual slaves and their treatment was most inhuman.
As already mentioned, the overseers had large powers of compulsorilyapprenticing the children of the poor.
I wish to ask whether you would dream of apprenticing him to any such business.
I told him last evening about your plan of apprenticing him to Mr. Bickford.
In the returns of 1786, it is said that this, and Mrs. Robertson’s benefaction after mentioned were given for apprenticingpoor children; but they are not now so applied.
Hence it is that we find a Babylonian lady named Nubtâ, in the second year of Cyrus, apprenticing a slave to a weaver for five years.
I was thinking, when he gets a little older, of apprenticing him to some trade, but he is not fourteen yet.
The prisoner's mother had applied to me about apprenticing her son.
M448) One feature which the later Babylonian contracts show us for the first time, but which probably was always in force, is the apprenticing of slaves to a trade.
My father is talking of apprenticing me, Master Geoffrey," Walter said that evening.
I hope that you will, as you were good enough to promise, talk with him about apprenticing me to your craft rather than to his.
Now, few are aware that when apprenticingboys to the sea a trial voyage is necessary.
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