Post by emilee on Apr 9, 2009 17:51:23 GMT -5
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near where the charter'd thames does flow
and mark in every face i meet
marks of weakness, marks of woe.
C[/font][/size]omposed during the romantic period this was william blakes' view of the streets he walked, london. during that period the streets were run by the powerful and those who lacked the wealth to do so were placed at the bottom of the pile. poor and starving. we've come along such a long way since then, children were horrified of the conditions their relatives once lived in and we never thought we would go back to those charter'd streets again. it happened though, with the collapse of the united states economy, it wasn't long until the world's economy collapsed. only the richest would survive and they were handed all the power. london returned to it's industrial roots, iron works, cloth mills, everything was made locally because we simply couldn't afford to take work abroad, the british once more became cheap labor.
W[/font][/size]e never thought it would get any worse, this was the bottom, factory owners once more had a firm grasp over london, owners of great estates. the poor became the money-less, there would be a family of twelve renting a room in a house owned by the bourgeoisie but still they couldn't afford to live. they would die without the ability to make a living, so they sold what they had, their children, to the factory owners with the grand estates, estates that needed workers, factory owners that needed hands. this brought the new boom of slavery, now the poor were being captured and sold by traders making their money through selling bodies. people were shipped from other countries, good quality slaves. it became a business and it didn't matter who you were. if you were poor enough to steal, sleep on the streets, beg for money, then you were poor enough to work for the new race of masters.
S[/font][/size]ome still fight, some offer good kind homes to slaves on sale but that, is a small proportion compared to the power hungry masters of the twenty first century.
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