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In the early 1800s, the barbaric and unbelievable practice of using children to sweep chimneys was common. Chimney sweep masters employed children, usually boys, as young as six years old but never less than about fourteen years old, to climb up inside the chimney stack to sweep out the soot.
If the soot was not removed, this could clog the chimney. At the time, people depended very largely on coal fires to heat their homes and coal produces vast amounts of soot that coats the inside of the chimney. If it was not swept regularly, there was also a risk that lighting a fire would ignite the soot and burn the house down.
Chimney sweep apprentices had a miserable life; made to climb up about eight chimneys a day, they were often punished severely for getting stuck or not being able to get up a chimney fast enough. They often died from the rough treatment, getting stuck in chimneys or from illness.
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