Talk:Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor
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[edit] Proposal to merge Black Poor into Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor
It is hard tosee what the Black Poor page adds - except confusion. e.g. Ignatius Sancho was not poor, but middle class: a shop keeper. The question of whether the East End waqs impoverished is very POV - consider Claude McKay's view that the real wealth of London lay in its docks . . . What is to be gained by having this as a seperate page to Black British and Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor (CRBP). The section on Immigration to Sierra Leone can all go in the CRBP page, which is the context in which the "Black Poor" were considered a aparticular group. This was also psecifically related to the fact that they were not able to return to their parish of origin, which is how most impoverished people accessed indoor or outdoor relief. Also teh question is much more a matter of unemployment rather than menial work - and there were comparable relief schemes at the time for such as the weavers in Shoreditch. Also if we look at the poverty ofsomeone like Ukawsaw Gronniosaw when he was in Colchester, his appeal for alms came about through his Christian connections. (But perhaps he should be on a Christian Poor page.) The tradition about the prostitutes in Deptford is un sourced, however I believe there was a petition by a group of women who fancied a better life in Africa than gutting fish in Deptford - but I am not sure of any reference to this.Harrypotter 21:42, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
