American Breaker Boys (Cruelty in the Coal Mines)

Breaker Boys in the past worked in dangerous mines with machinery which could kill. In the 1800s and early 1900s there was hardly a from of child labour more demoralizing and physically hazardous than working as a coal breaker boy. For ten or eleven hours a day children of ten and eleven years of age stooped over a chute and picked out slate and other impurities from coal as it tumbled down and past them on a conveyor belt. 📣 JOIN to support the channel as a Member: 👍 Support the channel (donations): Send a Super Thanks on the video page Do you like history? SUBSCRIBE and click the bell icon to keep up-to-date. Please support the channel by sharing this video on social media 📲 ✅ It really helps the channel grow so we can bring you more content to watch 📺 Thank you. ▶️ Horror in the Cotton Mills (A History of Cruelty in the Industrial Revolution): Check out American Slums and Tenements (Playlist): Check out Victorian documentaries (Playlist): Check out Edwardian Documentaries (Playlist): Check out Worst Jobs in Victorian History (Playlist): Check out Criminal Past (Playlist): Check out Victorian workhouses (Playlist): Credits: Narration - CC BY - Close Up On Page Of Dictionary With Definition Of Word Fossil Fuel by ; Drive for Anthracite, Reflections mining history by PublicResourceOrg CC BY SA - Anthracite coal region, slate pickers at work in coal breaker, Breaker boys at dinner hour, Scranton, Pa, Breaker Boys at the Kehley Run Colliery, Shenandoah, Pa, Breaker Boys at door finishing, his work, Picking slate, Wilkes-Barre, Pa, Screen room, Maltby Breaker - Wilkes-Barre, Pa by Janet Lindenmuth #BreakerBoys #BreakerBoysDocumentary #CoalBreakerBoys #ChildLabour #CoalMine #CoalMining #CoalBreakersDocumentary #CottonMillsDocumentary #CottonMillsIndustrialRevolution #CottonMill #FactFeast