slave wages

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"We won't work for slave wages," said Paul Chasshind, one of many pickets marching last week near an entrance to the Monessen plant.

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In 1860 there was a culmination of this rise of slave wages throughout the South, contemporaneous with that of their purchase prices.

From American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell