"I don't know how old I am I began to work when I was about 9. I first worked for a man who used to hit me with a belt I used to sleep in the pits that had no more coal in them; 1
used to eat whatever I could get; I ate for a long time the candles that I found in the pits..
- E. Royston Pike, 1896, adapted from Hard Times, Human Documents of the Ind Rev
Identify the best use of this document for a historian.
1. To determine why mine owners employed children
2. To study the long term effects of working in mines on child labors
3. To find out how much money mine owners saved by hiring children
4. To understand the conditions child laborers experienced