SOCIAL WORK

Social Work

Social Work

Introduction

The responsibility of the Colonial legislature to provide social services for the ex-slaves increased. However, they evaded their responsibilities through neglect, or, by expecting the plantation owners to continue to provide housing and medical care while the religious societies such as the Moravians and the Methodist were to provide education. As a result of the neglect, the ex-slaves had to resort to caring for themselves.

Discussion

Private individuals and humanitarians consequently started the educational system in Barbados. The elementary schools emerged from the attempts of the Anglican, Moravian and the Methodist churches who thought Christian education to slaves ...