Labor, Free and Slave: Workingmen and the Anti-Slavery Movement in the United States-Fast Shipping

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Title: Labor, Free and Slave: Workingmen and the Anti-Slavery Movement in the United States

Author: Bernard Mandel

ISBN: 9780252074288

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2007

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Edition: Paper Ed

Number of Pages: 256

Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.

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A classic piece of Old Left scholarship made available to a new generation of students and activists

Bernard Mandel’s classic study provides a concise overview of the relationship between organized abolitionism and the fledgling labor movement in the period before the Civil War. Mandel argues that slavery reinforced the powerlessness of white workers North and South, and the racial divisions that it upheld rendered effective labor solidarity impossible. Deep distrust between abolitionists and the working classes, however, compelled Northern workers to find their own way into the antislavery ranks.