History of the United States I / Unit 12 USH1 1708 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Wage Slavery
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The idea
Defenders of slavery attacked northern wage labour, arguing the Industrial Revolution had created wage slavery, far worse than southern plantation slavery.
In practice
Virginians blaming William Lloyd Garrison for instigating Nat Turner's rising.
Where people slip
The comparison is an argument about the North rather than a defence of the South, which is what makes it effective in print.
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