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  • Meat, corn, livestock, clothes, jewelry, bales of cotton, and vegetables planted in gardens disappeared from free-labor plantations all over the South.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • It would be tempting for me to rail against the exploitative nature of these Division l sports in terms of the relatively free-labor "student-athletes," many of whom are "amateurs" in name only, contributing results in an enormous amount of revenue for their alma mater.

    Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: Penn State and Division l Education Joel Shatzky 2011

  • It would be tempting for me to rail against the exploitative nature of these Division l sports in terms of the relatively free-labor "student-athletes," many of whom are "amateurs" in name only, contributing results in an enormous amount of revenue for their alma mater.

    Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: Penn State and Division l Education Joel Shatzky 2011

  • It would be tempting for me to rail against the exploitative nature of these Division l sports in terms of the relatively free-labor "student-athletes," many of whom are "amateurs" in name only, contributing results in an enormous amount of revenue for their alma mater.

    Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: Penn State and Division l Education Joel Shatzky 2011

  • It would be tempting for me to rail against the exploitative nature of these Division l sports in terms of the relatively free-labor "student-athletes," many of whom are "amateurs" in name only, contributing results in an enormous amount of revenue for their alma mater.

    Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: Penn State and Division l Education Joel Shatzky 2011

  • That same year, Seward had spoken of "an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, . . . the United States must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slave-holding nation or entirely a free-labor nation."

    Gary Gallagher: Was the election of Abraham Lincoln a threat to the South? Gary Gallagher 2010

  • That same year, Seward had spoken of "an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, ... the United States must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slave-holding nation or entirely a free-labor nation."

    Gary Gallagher: Was the election of Abraham Lincoln a threat to the South? Gary Gallagher 2010

  • At the time, it should be noted, many opponents of slavery were more concerned with its impact on free-labor economics than its moral iniquity.

    The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

  • We will live, and grow, and achieve on our own terms — as we have since the days of slavery when “book-learnin '” was effectively outlawed for the dusky free-labor underclass.

    “Hello Malcolm...Hello Martin...” 2008

  • We will live, and grow, and achieve on our own terms — as we have since the days of slavery when “book-learnin '” was effectively outlawed for the dusky free-labor underclass.

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

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