Salvation Army Social Campaign—Work for All—allegorical map—Booth 1890 old
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Salvation Army Social Campaign—Work for All—[In Darkest England, and the Way Out]
A late-19th-century social-reform pictorial-allegorical map promoting the Salvation Army’s Social Campaign developed under William Booth in 1890, one of the most influential social-reform texts of Victorian Britain. Confronted by the organisation’s limited success in reaching the poorest urban slums, and influenced by the work of “social” Salvationists active in London, Booth redirected the movement from a purely evangelistic mission towards a practical programme addressing unemployment and poverty. The City Colony formed the first stage of his three-part scheme—City, Farm, and Overseas Colonies—intended to guide the urban poor from destitution into workshops, rural training, or emigration. The composition presents a striking allegory of humanity drowning in a sea of social evils, including drunkenness, misery, despair, “idiocy,” and wife desertion. Though controversial, and criticised by contemporaries as fostering dependency and social engineering, the scheme marked a decisive transformation in the Salvation Army’s mission and laid the foundations of its modern social-service work.
Size 41 x 26 cm | 16.0 x 10.0 inches
Date Published: 1890
Type: Antique allegorical pictorial chart illustrating the Salvation Army’s social reform programme
Author: Salvation Army
Publication: In Darkest England & the Way Out
Condition: Good |
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