Canada

I personally know one of the Barnardo children (male) who was taking too long to milk the cow and bring cream to the breakfast table . The owner's wife clobbered him across the skull with a cast iron frying pan and he lay unconscious for a day before he was then put back to work. Didn't kill him but near as dammit. Many of the Barnardos and other cheap labourers were killed back then by the bosses. They didn't have to be slaves.