Using documents drawn from newspapers, magazines, and books,
this volume provides a documentary history of the relationships
between labor and abolitionists from the early 1830s to the Civil
War. It includes newspaper articles from mainstream dailies as well
as from abolitionist journals and the labor press. The voices heard
from include prominent abolitionist leaders, grass roots activists,
representatives of the labor movement, land reformers, and utopian
advocates of universal reform. The book shows labor's response to
such critical episodes as the 1831 Nat Turner Revolt, the
Kansas-Nebraska Act, John Brown's execution, and the election of
Abraham Lincoln.
Themes covered include the contrast between wage labor and
chattel slavery, the abolitionists' outreach to white labor, the
views of reformers who held that a universal solution to the labor
question took priority over abolition, the varying responses of
labor activists to the slavery question, and labor's growing role
in the 1850s as a constituent in an antislavery coalition. At the
same time, the book notes the continued presence of racism and
specific instances of friction between white and black workers, as
in the explosive violence of the 1863 New York City Draft Riot.
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