Capital and Labor
October 26, 1849 The article, with the above title, is from “The New York correspondent of the Washington Union.” Without including the statistics used to advance the author’s argument, here is the...
View ArticleWorking Men’s Revolution Meeting
May 26, 1848 An article telling of a meeting at Faneuil Hall, largely attended, ” to sympathize with the European Revolution and express the sentiments of the laboring class in regard to its...
View ArticleWages Slavery and Chattel Slavery
April 23, 1847 Here William West, writing for Boston, April 5, addressed to WLG, calling for greater attention to the evils of wages slavery. The root of the problem is claimed to be in Land. That...
View ArticleThe Slavery of Wages
March 26, 1847 From Thomas Ingersoll, Westfield, Chaut. Co. N .Y. “I have seen the slavery of the South, and the slavery of the North; and, sir, I find little to choose between the slavery of wages...
View ArticleJames M’Cune Smith – free blacks
February 16, 1844 Addressed to Rev. Orville Dewey, D.D., Smith responds to a lecture in which Dewey has asserted that emancipated blacks in free states are worse off than the slaves of the south. Smith...
View ArticleFactory closes, unemployment
July 22, 1842 A brief note: “We understand that two or more of the mills at Lowell have been stopped, and that between two and three thousand factory girls are thus thrown out of employment.” The post...
View ArticleWhite slavery or caste, in England
July 15, 1842 Here is an “Interesting Letter from England”, signed only W.H.Ashurst, from Musell Hill, Hornsey, April 30, 1842 The letter makes a number of points: “We are struggling here against white...
View ArticleReligion Among the Poor
An item from the N. E. Baptist Register, titled Religion Among the Poor: here is an affirmation of the fidelity of poor people to the religion of Jesus Christ. “The rights of men and plainly and...
View ArticleClass
A letter to the Editor, from “W” makes a strong statement that the conditions of the working class merit a dedication to change as much as the condition of the slaves. Garrison introduces the...
View ArticleWorking Class Issues:
While commenting on the truth that “there is an effort to inflame the minds of the working classes against the more opulent”, and concerned that there be no violence, he speaks warmly of the working...
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