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Pbs: American Experience: The Time of the Lincolns: Wage Slavery

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A comparison of factory labor in the North to slave labor in the South. Southerners used the situation of factory workers making low wages in order to justify their own use of slave labor.

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slavery, working conditions

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advantages of slavery, factory labor, factory worker, slave conditions, slave labor, wages of factory worker, time of the lincolns, wgbh, wgbh educational foundation, wage slavery

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Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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