Nonfiction · 1890
In Darkest England, and The Way Out
In Darkest England, and the Way Out lays out, in exhaustive practical detail, William Booth's plan to rescue what he called Britain's "submerged tenth" — the poorest of the London poor, alongside criminals, prostitutes and the homeless — through a coordinated scheme of labor colonies in the city, the countryside and abroad, farm training, emigration assistance, rescue homes and job placement, all backed by the organizational reach of the Salvation Army he had already spent twenty-five years building.
William Booth published the book in 1890, taking its title's grim comparison from Henry Morton Stanley's recent In Darkest Africa; it became an immediate bestseller and a founding document of practical, organized Christian social work, credited with reshaping how Victorian Britain thought about systematic poverty relief.
Bibliomancer publishes the 1890 text exactly as William Booth wrote it.
Contents
- Dedication
- Preface
- Part 1 — The Darkness
- Chapter 1 — Why “Darkest England”?
- Chapter II — The Submerged Tenth
- Chapter 3 — The Homeless
- Chapter 4 — The Out-of-Works
- Chapter 5 — On the Verge of the Abyss
- Chapter 6 — The Vicious
- Chapter 7 — The Criminals
- Chapter 8 — The Children of the Lost
- Chapter 9 — Is There No Help?
- Part 2 — Deliverance
- Chapter 1 — A Stupendous Undertaking
- Section I — The Essentials to Success
- Section 2 — My Scheme
- Chapter 2 — To the Rescue!—The City Colony
- Section 1 — Food and Shelter for Every Man
- Section 2 — Work for the Out-of-Works.—The Factory
- Section 3 — The Regimentation of the Unemployed
- Section 4 — The Household Salvage Brigade
- Chapter 3 — To the Country!—The Farm Colony
- Section 1 — The Farm Proper
- Section 2 — The Industrial Village
- Section 3 — Agricultural Villages
- Section 4 — Co-Operative Farm
- Chapter 4 — New Britain—The Colony Over-Sea
- Section 1 — The Colony and the Colonists
- Section 2 — Universal Emigration
- Section 3 — The Salvation Ship
- Chapter 5 — More Crusades
- Section 1 — A Slum Crusade.—Our Slum Sisters
- Section 2 — The Travelling Hospital
- Section 3 — Regeneratlon of Our Criminals.—The Prison Gate Brigade
- Section 4 — Effectual Deliverance for the Drunkard
- Section 5 — A New Way of Escape for Lost Women. The Rescue Homes
- Section 6 — A Preventive Home for Unfallen Girls When in Danger
- Section 7 — Enquiry Office for Lost People
- Section 8 — Refuges for the Children of the Streets
- Section 9 — Industrial Schools
- Section 10 — Asylums for Moral Lunatics
- Chapter 6 — Assistance in General
- Section 1 — Improved Lodgings
- Section 2 — Model Suburban Villages
- Section 3 — The Poor Man’s Bank
- Section 4 — The Poor Man’s Lawyer
- Section 5 — Our Intelligence Department
- Section 6 — Co-Operation in General
- Section 7 — A Matrimonial Bureau
- Section 8 — Whitechapel-by-the-Sea
- Section 1 — The Credentials of the Salvation Army
- Section 2 — How Much Will It Cost?
- Section 3 — Some Advantages Stated
- Section 4 — Some Objections Met
- Section 5 — Recapitulation
- Chapter 8 — A Practical Conclusion
- Appendix
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