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Tag Archives: free labor
work song
An American trio … Labor is one of the great elements of society – the great substantial interest on which we all stand. Not feudal service, or predial toil, or the irksome drudgery by one race of mankind subjected, on … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Booker T. Washington, Daniel Webster, free labor, labor, Labor Day
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cotton-picking wages
Almost two years after the Civil War ended Alfred R. Waud was still providing illustrations from the front for Harper’s Weekly. Back in January his drawings of a rice plantation in Georgia were published. The February 2, 1867 issue of … Continue reading
lemonade stand
Talk about “Yankees.” It is time we were all Yankees, if by the term is meant a shrewd, energetic and indomitable encounter with difficulties. Tell us about being “Abolitionists!” We are all Abolitionists by force of events — by the … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Month, Aftermath, Reconstruction, Southern Society
Tagged free labor, freed slaves, Georgia, Reconstruction
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labor endorsement
From the April 2, 1864 issue of Harper’s Weekly at Son of the South: PRESIDENT LINCOLN ON THE RIGHTS OF LABOR. A Committee of the New York Workingmen’s Democratic Republican Association waited upon the President a few days since, to … Continue reading
rosy outlook from dismal science
How can the Northern economy be doing relatively well given the labor and wealth wasted on the war? High labor productivity applied to a big and well-endowed country that can take in large numbers of immigrants, who add to the … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Week, Northern Society
Tagged free labor, northern economy, productivity
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