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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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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