bigrebnc1775
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I was looking at the thread title. The Civil War was also a conflict between an agrarian economy, and the beginnings of industrialization. Northern "wage slavery" was no utopia for "free" workers. Most jobs paid barely enough to live on, no protection for workers either. Become ill, or unable to work-out the door one went. Child labor was also allowed in many Northern states.
A slave in the south was a little bit better off than the wage slave of the north. The company had hold of the wage slave of the north because they did not make enough money to pay for their credit with the company store and if you owed the company store you could not leave that company.
You had to house yourself put clothes on your back take care of yourself if you were hurt or sick. At least the slave had food on his table clothes on his back and if he became hurt or sick he wasn't kicked out because he couldn't pay for his house and he had food on his table. Sad either one couldn't freely move about.