The Yankee Cotton-Spinner in a Fix. Free Labour Question in America.
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The Yankee Cotton-Spinner in a Fix. Free Labour Question in America.
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"I THINK that the Free Labour Question will come before the people of this country in a short time. The Slave States are fast erecting various kinds of manufacturing establishments, but more particularly for the manufacture of cotton goods. This will cause both capitalist and labourers of the Free States to take the side of Free Labour. The slave-holders have already in operation, in the Slave States, a number of establishments.
"In one, they have three hundred women at work. It costs but about twenty-five dollars per year to take care of a slave. They say that they can manufacture cotton goods twenty per cent cheaper at the South, than the free manufacturers of the North. If so, then the Northern manufacturers must stop, or try to keep slave-manufactured goods out of the market. I think the latter will be the case. The question of the impropriety of using slave produce is being discussed in this country in several of our papers. The Pennsylvania Freeman takes, I think, a good stand upon the question."
--Letter from William W. Brown, dated Philadelphia, December 30, 1848.
"In one, they have three hundred women at work. It costs but about twenty-five dollars per year to take care of a slave. They say that they can manufacture cotton goods twenty per cent cheaper at the South, than the free manufacturers of the North. If so, then the Northern manufacturers must stop, or try to keep slave-manufactured goods out of the market. I think the latter will be the case. The question of the impropriety of using slave produce is being discussed in this country in several of our papers. The Pennsylvania Freeman takes, I think, a good stand upon the question."
--Letter from William W. Brown, dated Philadelphia, December 30, 1848.
Creator
William Wells Brown
Source
Monthly Illustrations of American Slavery
Date
2.29.1849
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Citation
William Wells Brown, “The Yankee Cotton-Spinner in a Fix. Free Labour Question in America.,” No Stain of Tears and Blood, accessed October 22, 2026, https://productsoffreelabor.com/items/show/73.
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