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This is an excerpt from William Cooper’s testimony before the Sadler Committee in 1832.

Sadler: When did you first begin to work in mills?
Cooper: When I was ten years of age.
Sadler: What were your usual hours of working?
Cooper: We began at five in the morning and stopped at nine at night.
Sadler: What time did you have for meals?
Cooper: We had just one period of forty minutes in sixteen hours. That was at noon.
Sadler: What means were taken to keep you awake and attentive?
Cooper: At times we were frequently strapped.
Sadler: When your hours were so long, did you have any time to attend a day school?
Cooper: We had no time to go to day school.

This is an excerpt from the testimony of Joseph Hebergam to the Sadler Committee.

Sadler: Do you know of any other children who died at the R Mill?
Hebergam: There were about a dozen died during the two years and a half that I was there. At the L Mill where I worked last, a boy was caught in a machine and had both his thigh bones broke and from his knee to his hip . . . . His sister, who ran to pull him off, had both her arms broke and her head bruised. The boy died. I do not know if the girl is dead, but she was not expected to live.
Sadler: Did the accident occur because the shaft was not covered?
Hebergam: Yes.

. These documents were most likely written during which historical period?

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Answer:

The Industrial Revolution.

Explanation:

In the given two excerpts, the main theme seems to revolve around the issue of working children and the inability to go to school. Both passages show how long working hours were given under extreme working conditions, also leading to the deaths of the workers who were children, young children.

Both of these excerpts refer to the Industrial Revolution period where children were 'employed' to do heavy work under extreme conditions. The documents suggest the extremity of the working conditions of the workers.

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