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Originally Posted by crich70
And most chimney sweeps in the old days were young children who were small of build and often underfed. I understand that sometimes they got stuck and died in the chimneys back then as well.
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That kind of thing should never have happened at the time it did. It seems like the mistakes and cruelties of a barbaric society always comes in cycles. Abusive child labor is something I don't realistically expect to see in my lifetime, but after I'm dead, and in a few centuries, who knows?