Show CHILD SLAVERY IN SICILY condition of in the sulphur at an investigation has been set on foot regarding the sulphur mines ox girgenti the researches reveal a fearful state of things each miner working at the vin has as assistants or or two children whose duty it is to carry the broken mineral to the these children are bought from their parents for one hundred or one hundred and fifty francs BO long as eliat sum is not returned the child belongs to the miner is his per bonal property his slave in facer twelve houra a day cheso poor wretches labor carrying upon their backs heavy loads to the surface A little bread and some raw onions aro all the food which these children whose ages ag es vary between eight and fifteen years haye to support life upon at night they sleep upon the hard boor of a cave their skin hangs in rags from their shoulders their bodies are covered with sores their backs bent their limbs twisted their foreheads wrinkled and their oyes are sunken in their sockets death alone can set them free and the barbarous treatment of their tyrants often accelerates this fatal issue many victims perish under the blows of their masters and no ono troubles himself in the least about it the most terrible moral corruption reis at the bottom of this hell and the wretched caruso cu ruso is the victim |