![]() ![]() Because we both know the only way he will ever come back to this school is when your machine spits him out." He could be a teacher or a manager or even a lawyer someday. Here are a few text quotes to give you a flavour of this writing by Elizabeth Winthrop: Grace’s brief acquaintance with Hine and the photos he takes of her are a gift that changes her sense of herself, her future, and her family’s future. ![]() It is the famous reformer Lewis Hine, undercover, collecting evidence for the Child Labor Board. A few weeks later a man with a camera shows up. Together they write a secret letter to the Child Labor Board about underage children working in Pownal. She only feels capable on Sundays, when she and Arthur receive special lessons from their teacher. Grace’s every mistake costs her mother, and the family. But she’s left handed and doffing is a right-handed job. Grace’s mother is the best worker, fast and powerful, and Grace desperately wants to help her. At 12, Grace and her best friend Arthur must leave school and go to work as a “doffers” on their mothers’ looms in the mill. ![]()
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