On Equal Terms

During a debate in the House of Commons, Joseph Brotherton described from personal experience the hardships of a young boy working in the Manchester Cotton mills. Sir James Graham, from a much more elevated social background, was so moved by this proof of Victorian social mobility that he declared he had never been more proud of the British Parliament.

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