William Booth: "Darkest England"

William Booth compares England to Henry Stanley’s description of the the brutality, slavery, and disease in “Darkest Africa”

Darkest England

Mirrors Henry Stanley’s description of “Darkest Africa.”

Booth compares Africa’s jungles to England’s cities

He sees as many terrors down the street in London as in equatorial Africa

Even equates the horrors in London to an attack of slave traders on an African Village

Compares the violation of women in the factories to violation of the captured slave women

Compares sweat system to the slave system and the bourgeoise capitalists in the House of Lords to slave traders

Compares malaria in africa to “defects” in the sanitary system in London that cause so many illnesses and deaths every year

Compares miseries that arise in Africa due to slave traders to the miseries in London that arise due to drink

Submerged Tenth

Booth claims he is advocating for those who 1) have no income of their own and 2) those who are unable to get the proper amount of food despite their utmost efforts to work hard

States it is impossible to attain the bare necessities for every Englishman

Claims that even horses have all the necessities that these humans are clambering for

NB: William Booth started the Salvation Army