Spreading Victorian virtues overseas. (promotion of the emigration movement)

Contemporary Review | May 1, 1995| | Copyright

Compared with today, when the flow of ethnic minorities into the country causes concern in some quarters, the Victorians were equally interested in emigration, seeing it both as the answer to economic difficulties at home and an opportunity to spread the beneficent influence of Britain to less fortunate territories beyond the seas. It was a movement which attracted the support of a wide range of philanthropic people in many ranks of society, including, among such still-remembered names as Edward Gibbon Wakefield and Stuart Mill, the unlikely William Henry Giles Kingston, ...

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