Edward Jenkins

Take a large factory in Manchester, or Birmingham, or Belfast, build a wall around it, shut in it's people from all intercourse, save at rare intervals, with the outside world, keep them in absolute heathen ignorance, and get all the work you can out of them, treat them not unkindly, leave their social habits and relations to themselves, as matters not concerning you who make money from their labor, and you would have constituted a little community resembling to no small degree, a sugar estate village in British Guiana.

Edward Jenkins (1838-1910), The Coolie: His Rights and Wrongs (London, Straham and Co., 1871), Pg 95


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