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<p><span style="font-style: normal;">The day is over, no longer will we toil and spin;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-style: normal;">For evening's hush withdraws from the daily din.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-style: normal;">And how we sing with gladsome hearts,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-style: normal;">The theme of the spinner's song.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-style: normal;">That labor to leisure a zest imparts,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-style: normal;">Unknown to the idle throng.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-style: normal;"><br /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-style: normal;">We spin all day, and then, in the time for rest,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-style: normal;">Sweet peace is found, A joyous and welcome guest.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-style: normal;">Despite of toil we all agree, or out of the Mills or in,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-style: normal;">Dependent on others we never will be,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-style: normal;">So long as we are able to spin. </span></p>
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American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning
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"Song of the Spinners"
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The <em>Lowell Offering</em> was a magazine written by the young women who worked in the Lowell textile mills. It was published from 1840 to 1845. The magazine was supported by the city's textile companies, and it promoted morality and hard work among the young female workers. This song appeared in the <em>Lowell Offering</em>.
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"Song of the Spinners" <em>Lowell Offering</em>, 1841, Merrimack Valley Textile Museum, from <em>Uses of Liberty Rhetoric Among Lowell Mill Girls</em>, http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/americanstudies/lavender/lowell.html.
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1786
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1841
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Antebellum America (1816-1860)
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Lowell
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"Song of the Spinners" (with text supports)
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The Lowell Offering was a magazine written by the young women who worked in the Lowell textile mills. It was published from 1840 to 1845. The magazine was supported by the city’s textile companies, and it promoted morality and hard work among the young female workers. This song appeared in the Lowell Offering.
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"Song of the Spinners" Lowell Offering, 1841, Merrimack Valley Textile Museum, from Uses of Liberty Rhetoric Among Lowell Mill Girls, http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/americanstudies/lavender/lowell.html.
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Antebellum America (1816-1860)
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Lowell
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https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/files/original/av_daughters-of-free-men_ec49052f0e.pdf
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<em>Daughters of Free Men</em> Active Viewing worksheets
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English
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These worksheets guide students as they watch the short film <em><a href="http://ashp.cuny.edu/ashp-documentaries/daughters-of-free-men/" target="_blank">Daughters of Free Men</a></em>.
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American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, 2011.
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<div><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/"><img style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/3.0/88x31.png" alt="Creative Commons License" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License</a>.</div>
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1813
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2011
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Labor Activism
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Lowell
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<p><strong>Appleton (mill owner):</strong> . . . In this rich, young republic-we have started afresh in all things. Here on the Merrimack River we have prospered, not only because we invented a power loom. But also because we found disciplined and respectable workers, the virtuous daughters of our New England farmers. Our mills at Lowell are a kind of industrial miracle. In America, we can have manufactures without the sprawling, filth-strewn slums of England. Abundance without the degradation and poverty of the old world… </p>
<p><strong>Obadiah Smith (overseer):</strong> Watch out, Harriet Dearie. Or you can leave right now and not come back. Don't need all of you anyway. People aren't buying so much cloth these days. The Boston partners-Appleton and the rest-they can't sell what they got already. You better quiet down and be sensible like little Lucy here</p>
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<em>Daughters of Free Men</em> Script Excerpts
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The following excerpts are taken from the script for <em><a href="http://ashp.cuny.edu/ashp-documentaries/daughters-of-free-men/" target="_blank">Daughters of Free Men</a></em>, which was written by the American Social History Project.
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American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning.
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1808, 1816
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2011
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Antebellum America (1816-1860)
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Lowell
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The following excerpts are taken from the script for <em><a href="The following excerpts are taken from the script for Daughters of Free Men, which was written by the American Social History Project. " target="_blank">Daughters of Free Men,</a></em> which was written by the American Social History Project.
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2011
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Antebellum America (1816-1860)
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Lowell
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https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/files/original/daughters-viewerguide1_837b363c33.pdf
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Viewer's Guide
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This booklet is curriculum support for the American Social History Project's 30-minute documentary <em><a href="http://ashp.cuny.edu/ashp-documentaries/daughters-of-free-men/" target="_blank">Daughters of Free Men</a></em>. The viewer's guide contains background information on issues raised by the documentary as well as additional primary source materials for use in the classroom.
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2007
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Antebellum America (1816-1860)
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Labor Activism
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Lowell
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<em>The Lowell Offering</em>
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Beginning in the 1820s, a group of Boston businessmen built textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts. The first factories recruited women from rural New England as their labor force. These young women, far from home, lived in rows of boardinghouses adjacent to the growing number of mills. <em>The Lowell Offering</em> was a monthly magazine written by these women workers and published from 1840 to 1845. Its contents included songs, poems, essays, and stories--both serious and humorous--about what it was like to work in the mills. It was first organized and edited by a local minister and supported by the city's textile companies. As this cover illustration suggests, it promoted morality and hard work among the young female workers.
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<em>The Lowell Offering</em>, December 1845.
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1990
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1845
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Antebellum America (1816-1860)
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Lowell
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<p>I know that sometimes the confinement of the mill became very wearisome to me. In the sweet June weather I would lean far out of the window, and try not to hear the unceasing clash of sound inside…. </p>
<p>I regard it as one of the privileges of my youth that I was permitted to grow up among these active, interesting girls…. They were earnest and capable; ready to undertake anything that was worth doing…. They gave me a larger, firmer idea of womanhood…. </p>
<p>Country girls were naturally independent, and the feeling that at this new work the few hours they had of every-day leisure were entirely their own was a satisfaction to them. They preferred it to going out as ‘hired help.’ It was like a young man’s pleasure in entering upon business for himself. Girls had never tried that experiment before, and they liked it.</p>
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American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning
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A Former Lowell Girl Remembers Working in the Mills
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Lucy Larcom worked in the mills at Lowell as a young woman. In her memoir, written more than forty years later, she remembered how she and other young female mill workers felt about their jobs.
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Lucy Larcom
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Lucy Larcom, <em>A New England Girlhood</em> (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1889).
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1889
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Antebellum America (1816-1860)
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Lowell
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https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/files/original/llarcom_147babf6f3.pdf
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American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning
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Lucy Larcom worked in the mills at Lowell as a young woman. In her memoir, written more than forty years later, she remembered how she and other young female mill workers felt about their jobs.
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Lucy Larcom
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Lucy Larcom, <em>A New England Girlhood</em> (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1889).
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1889
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Antebellum America (1816-1860)
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Lowell
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<p>Cutting down the wages was not their only grievance, nor the only cause of this strike. [Before] the corporations had paid twenty-five cents a week towards the board of each operative, and now it was their purpose to have the girls pay the sum; and this, in addition to the cut in the wages, would make a difference of at least one dollar a week. It was estimated that as many as twelve or fifteen hundred girls turned out, and walked in procession through the streets. They had neither flags nor music, but sang songs, [including] </p>
<p><em>“Oh! isn’t it a pity, such a pretty girl as I- </em></p>
<p><em>Should be sent to the factory to pine away and die? </em></p>
<p><em>Oh ! I cannot be a slave, </em></p>
<p><em>I will not be a slave, </em></p>
<p><em>For I’m so fond of liberty </em></p>
<p><em> That I cannot be a slave.”</em></p>
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A Former Mill Girl Remembers the Lowell Strike of 1836
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Harriet Hanson Robinson began work in Lowell at the age of ten, later becoming an author and advocate of women's suffrage. In 1834 and 1836, the mill owners reduced wages, increased the pace of work, and raised the rent for the boardinghouses. The young female workers went on strike (they called it “turning out” then) to protest the decrease in wages and increase in rent. In 1898 Robinson published a memoir of her Lowell experiences where she describes the strike of 1836.
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Harriet Hanson Robinson
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Harriet Hanson Robinson, <em>Loom and Spindle or Life Among the Early Mill Girls</em> (New York, T. Y. Crowell, 1898), 83–86, from <em>History Matters: The U.S. Survey on the Web</em>, http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5714/.
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1
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1808, 1822
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1898
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Antebellum America (1816-1860)
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Labor Activism
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Lowell