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The Tudor Poor Laws were | [[File:Images2605.jpg|thumb|298px]] | ||
The Tudor Poor Laws were strict laws enforced in England during the Tudor era that were designed to stop vagrants and vagabonds - however by today's standards they were very cruel and tyrannical: with those unable to find work being tied to carts and whipped across the streets. | |||
A later revision to the law was made that allowed a convicted vagabond to be | A later revision to the law was made that allowed a convicted vagabond to be sold into [[slavery]] for a year, if they fled this punishment they would become a slave for life and if they fled a second time they would be executed - the revision was seen as so barbaric that very few lawmen of the time enforced it. | ||
The Tudor Poor Laws were only the start of several other laws created in later eras, such as the Victorian workhouses and child labor - all of which are considered oppresive in the modern world. | The Tudor Poor Laws were only the start of several other laws created in later eras, such as the Victorian [[workhouses]] and child labor - all of which are considered oppresive in the modern world. | ||
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