Video of the Colonies of Benevolence. Central to the Colonies of Benevolence was the idea of raising beggars and vagrants into better people who contributed to society. In the agricultural colonies the people were put to work (they turned moorland into fertile farmland and did a variety of other work). The enterprise, however, became a failure. The colonies ran into financial problems.
Collection: Multimedia
Project: 7. Persecuted by justice and powers: rebels, political dissidents and criminals in the history of Europe.
Chronology: XIX, XX
Scope: Secondary Education
Link: https://youtu.be/ABj1OD4cGUQ
Resource type: Video
Format: Multimedia
Source: Colonies of Benevolence, https://www.kolonienvanweldadigheid.eu/en/movie-7-colonies-benevolence
Language: English
Date: 2019
Owner: Amsterdam group (Modernalia)
Copyright: Colonies of Benevolence
Abstract: vagrancy, crime, punishment
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