1. Why does Sarah Bagley compare the situation of female factory workers with slavery? Sarah Bagley compared the situation of female factory workers with slavery because the environment the women were working in at the Lowell mills were very severe. The explanation is women had to work from 5 in the morning to 7 in the afternoon, with an average of 72 hours per week. Every room had at least 80 women working with machines.
2. What aspirations seem uppermost in Margaret McCarthy’s mind?
3. What do these documents suggest about how Americans of different backgrounds experienced and responded to economic conditions during the first half of the nineteenth century?
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