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To: Al Gator

Child labor was the equivalent of slavery for the time the child was forced to work, only age-emancipation could set him free.


61 posted on 01/06/2005 8:59:39 AM PST by Old Professer (When the fear of dying no longer obtains no act is unimaginable.)
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To: Old Professer
And what set the company town-owned workers in the northern mines and factories free?

I owe my soul to the company store.....

68 posted on 01/06/2005 9:06:10 AM PST by Al Gator
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