Yearsley states specifically: Curse on the toils spread by a Christian hand

To rob the Indian of his freedom! Curse

On him who from a bending parent steals

His dear support of age his darling child;

III. The LOT of the POOR in the EIGHTEEN CENTURY

The work of Joseph Townsend (1786) entitled: "A Dissertation on the Poor Laws" states: "Our poor laws are not only unjust, oppressive, and impolitic, nor am they merely by accident in inadequate to the purpose for which they were designed; but they proceed upon principles which border on absurdity, as professing to accomplish that which, in the very nature and constitution of the world, is impracticable." (1786) Townsend concludes by acknowledging that changes for the better are indeed possible as he relates his knowledge of a parish located in the West of England which he states "has never wanted poor, and in which, excepting for one short period, the poor have never wanted work" and yet he also notes that their poverty and their misery...

These open critiques set the tone for the many discussions of societal justice, which followed in the Nineteenth century and propelled real changes in society.
Bibliography

Collier, Mary (1739) the Woman's Labour and Epistle to Mr. Stephen Duck; in Answer to his late Poem, called the Thresher's Labour. Peterfield Hampfhire. Online available at http://www.usask.ca/english/barbauld/related_texts/collier.html

Yearsley, Ann (1788) a Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade. Online available at http://www.brycchancarey.com/slavery/yearsley1.htm

Townsend, Joseph (1786) a Dissertation on the Poor Laws. Online available at http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/townsend/poorlaw.html