S.A. H. TS202 FALL 2017 PELLETIER 2ND TEST "THE DARKEST ENGLAND" Flashcards
WHO was the Head of Army’s Social Reform?
Frank Smith(overseeing men's food depots and hostels) and W.T Stead= who offered to help Booth write a book describing his plan called, "darkest England and the Way Out"
what year did Catherine Booth die?
1890 before the book was published. she died of cancer.
what did Booth established in 1891 to challenge the use of a toxic phosphorous used in the manufacturing of matches?
he established the Darkest England Match Factory.
what was Booth’s Three Tiered Social Reform plan?
Booth’s “Darkest England” Social reform was:
1) City Colony
2) Farm Colony
3) Overseas Colony
1=city colony: was primarily rehabilitation programs working within the city itself
2=The farm colony: was were young city men could be re-trained in agriculture with hope of gainful employment away from the pollution of the cities. Hadley farm on the Essex coast was purchased and young men came to live there as they trained.
3=Overseas colony: Booth envision the establishment of farming communities made up of the families of the agricultural trainees.
-after the families were trained they were sent to various countries to make a go of life elsewhere.
-some overseas locations were South Africa, Australia, United States & Canada.
How did Booth feel in the beginning about the Army’s Social Reform?
He had his reservations about the Army becoming too involved with social work to the neglect of the evangelistic work.
Booth plan was not without its critics. journalists, socialists, politicians?
2= how did Booth answerf?
3=what happened because of the Onslow committee decision?
Colonel Frank Smith who left the ranks as a result.
2=BY asking for a committee of inquiry to be set up.
The Onslow Committee, chaired by the Earl of Onslow, made a thorough investigation and in its report exonerated Booth and declared his methods prudent and economical.
3=Army social work around the world was officially formalized with the social work in the various territories reflecting the needs of the individual territory.
what does White Slavery mean?
2= what exposed this kind of exploitation?
this was the exploitation of women for sex against their will.
2= the work with prostitutes exposed this serious issue.
who wrote the Maiden tribute article?
a journalist, W.T. Stead of the Pall Mall Gazette, Bramwell agreed to Stead carrying out an investigation that would demonstrate how easy it was to procure a young girl for immoral purposes and even take her out of the country
Stead would then write up his findings in a series of articles (which he called “The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon”) which would bring the problem to the public. Stead arranged with a former brothel ‘madame’ now an Army convert named Rebecca Jarrett for Stead to “buy” a 13 year old girl, Eliza Armstrong (whose mother had agreed) and arrange to have her taken with Mrs. Jarrett to France
Who was Booth’s bodyguard?
Peter Monk, the converted boxer who from the days in Quaker Burial Ground tent acted as William Booth’s self appointed bodyguard
Who was the Hallelujah Fiddler?
John Lawley who was converted in Bradford, Yorkshire in a Christian Mission meeting led by
James Dowdle (a.k. a. “The Hallelujah Fiddler” he became the Founder’s aide-de-camp until Booth’s promotion to Glory in 1912.
who was Joe the Turk?
Joseph Garabed born in Armenia in 1860 and at 17, a shoemaker by trade.
53 times arrested for preaching the gospel.
he became a traveling evanelist and wore a colorful red uniform with gold braid and a Turkish Fez. he carried an unbrella which had on it slogans, American and Army flags, and 9 small electric lights bulbs that lit up. he died in New York City in 1937.
