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Lenora M. Barry was the national women’s organizer for the Knights of Labor in the late nineteenth century. The Knights of Labor aimed to improve the lives and health of laborers by encouraging them to organize unions and other groups to fight for…

On October 18, 1883, mill worker Thomas O’Donnell testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Education and Labor about the hardships of unemployment and working-class issues. O'Donnell had immigrated from England in the 1870s. At the time of his…

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Tens of thousands of African Americans escaped the harsh economic difficulties and racist systems of the Reconstruction South between the late 1870s and early 1880s. Referencing the book of Exodus in the Old Testament, these migrants called…

Indentured servitude was common in Spanish colonized areas of North America. Indentured servitude was a system of labor in which a person had to work for four to seven years without pay in exchange for passage to the “New World.” Employers were…

In the eighteenth-century Chesapeake region, female indentured servants faced particular vulnerabilities. Indentured servitude was a system of labor in which a person had to work for four to seven years without pay in exchange for passage to the…

Indentured servitude was a system of labor in which a person had to work for four to seven years without pay in exchange for passage to the “New World.” Employers in Virginia (often planters) were expected to supply servants' housing, food, and…

Please use the following bibliography for additional information on these topics. Many of the books contained analysis of the primary sources included in this collection.

In this newspaper article, the Richmond Dispatch advocates for legal protections against the dumping of industrial waste in Virginia's waterways. Throughout North America, manufacturers located on river banks used fast moving water as a source of…
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