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Example sentences for "free labour"

  • But we had to bear in mind the arguments of 1841, and it was determined that the sugars so to be admitted were to be the product of free labour only.

  • Peel,' he says, 'had a plan for the admission of free labour sugar on terms of favour.

  • Free labour was to be had, and was occasionally needed; at the very outset of his work Cato (ch.

  • Even those who themselves had no slaves would be affected by it; for though, as we have seen, free labour was by no means ousted by it, it must have helped to create an idle class of freemen, with all its moral worthlessness.

  • The exclusion of free labour is here complete: on the agricultural estates it was approaching a completion which it fortunately never reached.

  • Free labour, when it can be obtained, is far less expensive than slave labour.

  • All available evidence appears to prove that Cabinda, Cape Verde, and Mozambique labour is, so far as contract labour goes, fairly recruited and honestly treated as 'free labour.

  • It was seen that slave labour was a constant check to the immigration of free labour, and therefore to the development of the country.

  • Guizot treats the change from slave to free labour as a mystery.

  • Here the product of convict labour is so small a proportion of the total product that the price received by free labour is hardly affected at all, and no objection has been made.

  • As the champion of the Wilmot Proviso concluded, the assembly resembled the Buffalo convention of 1848 at the moment of its declaration for free soil, free speech, free labour, and free men.

  • It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the United States must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slave-holding nation, or entirely a free labour nation.

  • The testimony of facts, however, is the conclusive evidence on the question, whether our system is relatively more corrupting than that of free labour.

  • The question whether the system of slave labour deteriorates the morals of master and servant, as compared with that of free labour, may be treated as one of deduction and reasoning, or one of fact.

  • It forbade anyone to keep more than a hundred large or five hundred small beasts on the common pasture-land, and stipulated for the employment of a certain proportion of free labour.

  • A sanguine tribune might hope permanently to check a growing evil by fresh supplies of free labour.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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