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Essay / Summary of the documentary: “No rest for the wicked” - 870
Now there is not only the slavery of minorities, but also the working classes who are enslaved to factory work. When slavery was abolished, the Anglican Church gave money to slave owners for their "losses." Ninety percent of the factory workers were Anglican and exploited. Conditions in the factories were deplorable and people like Eliza Marshall were damaged for life. She was a nine-year-old girl who worked from five in the morning to eleven at night. An Anglican activist named Michael Sadler was seized with moral outrage and pushed through legislation to protect women and children. It was writers like William Blake who shed light on the darkness of the factory. His poetry demonstrates his sensitivity to the transferred worker and to evil.