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Example sentences for "free labor"

  • True, there is no direct provision for the exclusion of free labor in your propositions, but such will certainly be their effect.

  • The establishing of slavery in the Territories is the practical exclusion of free labor in them.

  • I appeal to gentlemen from the South to say from their own experience whether free labor can be employed side by side with slave labor.

  • So far the success of cultivation by free labor is unquestionable.

  • Many of them gave their first week of free labor as an offering of good-will to their masters.

  • De Bow, the economist, testified before the Joint Committee on Reconstruction that, if the Negro would work, free labor would be better for the planters than slave labor.

  • Free labor has at last apprehended its rights and its destiny, and is organizing itself to assume the government of the Republic.

  • It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the United States must, and will, sooner or later, become entirely a slaveholding nation, or entirety a free labor nation.

  • Without attempting to set forth a principle, it shows beyond dispute that slavery does not pay in the South as well as free labor would, and that the blacks would produce more as free laborers than as slaves.

  • Free labor is far cheaper and more efficient than slave labor.

  • Therefore whenever she made such an appropriation she turned it into a slave State; for thus the competition of free labor would be effectually excluded therefrom.

  • I don't believe much can be made out of this generation by free labor, nor out of the next without teaching them to read, and am sorry so little has been done as yet in the teaching department.

  • The consequence of this is, that in the countries where the land is less productive, the cost of slave labor is still very considerable, which gives an additional advantage to the competition of free labor.

  • A district which is cultivated by slaves is in general more scantily peopled than a district cultivated by free labor: moreover, America is still a new country, and a State is therefore not half peopled at the time when it abolishes slavery.

  • As a political economist he reasoned that slave labor was degrading to free labor; that free labor was better than slave labor, and, therefore, he most earnestly desired its abolition.

  • In the course of her remarks she referred to the example and faithfulness of the "Society of Friends," in using as far as possible the produce of free labor in their families.

  • Since then, our family has been supplied with free labor, groceries, and to some extent, with cotton goods unstained by slavery.

  • Neither pays for labor; but the master permits the slave to retain a larger allowance from the proceeds of his own labor, and hence "free labor is cheaper than slave labor.

  • These profits are less, because the master allows the slave to retain a larger share of the results of his own labor, than do the employers of free labor.

  • By that time the pressure of free labor, and the increase of manufacturing, will have rendered some such step a necessity.

  • The demands of free labor for a wider area will make themselves felt, and the black will give way to the white, as in the West the buffalo vanishes before the bee.

  • There, in the land of free labor, he grew up in a log-cabin, with the solemn solitude for his teacher in his meditative hours.

  • Henceforth our country has a moral unity as the land of free labor.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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