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" Carolina on the unfortunate slaves than the canes and "whangs" of mill foremen were then used on helpless factory boys. When I went to a spinning mill I was about seven years of age. I had to get out of bed every morning at five o'clock, commence work... "
Chapters in the life of a Dundee factory boy, an autobiography [by J. Myles]. - Page 12
by James Myles - 1850 - 96 pages
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Factory Lives: Four Nineteenth-Century Working-Class Autobiographies

James R. Simmons, Jr - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 500 pages
...was never more unsparingly used in Carolina on the unfortunate slaves than the canes and "whangs"2 of mill foremen were then used on helpless factory...continue until half-past seven at night. Such were the nominal hours; but in reality there were no regular hours, masters and managers did with us as they...
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