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United States Labor History

Selected Primary Sources

Expansion and Sectionalism 1830-1850

Cinque, Amistad uprising defendant, by Nathanial Jocelyn

Portrait of Cinque, slave defendant in Amistad uprising by Nathaniel Jocelyn, 1839

(Photo from Wikimedia Commons-Public Domain)

Excerpt from An Address to the Working-Men of New England
The Market Revolution
A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper
Moses Roper, b 1815 a Narrative of the Adventures and Escape from American Slavery, North American Slave Narratives
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
Project Gutenberg e book
Orestes A. Brownson on "Free Labor" (1840)
Recruitment of Female Operatives - an Account from the 1840s
A Week in the Mill, From the Lowell Offering (1845)
1814?-1884 Narrative of William W. Brown
William Wells Brown, an American Slave. Written by Himself.