Topic > Documentary Summary: 'No Rest for the Wicked' - 870

Now there is not only slavery of minorities, but the lower classes were also enslaved to factory work. When slavery was abolished, the Anglican church gave money to slave owners for their "losses". Ninety percent of the workers were Anglicans and were exploited. Conditions in the factories were deplorable, and people like Eliza Marshall were damaged for life. She was the nine-year-old girl who worked from five in the morning to eleven at night. An Anglican activist named Michael Sadler was filled with moral outrage and pursued 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 towards the changed worker and evil