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SLAVERY IN THE SOUTH. Ill
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time or room to tlie incapable , many of whom offer their services , and are refusedthough , skilful workers are in demand . One
, manufacturer , who has had large experience in the " sewed muslin " trade ( now nearly extinct in Dublin ) is about to send to Belfast
for youn , g women to manage the sewing , -machines in a millinery establishment . There is reason to expect an increased demand for
labor in this branch of industry , but it is difficult to convince the sempstresses of this . When flax-spinning by steam-power was
introduced into the North , few of the laboring classes could have thought it likely that in thirty years a female operative in a
spinning mill would be able to earn double the amount of wages which could then be obtained by the girl at her wheel . In some
houses the goods , partly sewed by the machine , are given out to women who can pay a deposit ; some of these earn a subsistence by
collecting their poorer neighbors to sew at low wages , or give out the work to those who have not courage ( and too often not clothing )
to go to business houses in search of it . This last-mentioned difficulty has been , in one instance , overcome
relatives for by the shirt efforts -making of deceased of a , few have ladies soldiers established , who can , having the Crimean obtained work Home to an the army , where extent contract the of procure
twelve shirts a week , for which they receive 65 . Machines are not rent used here & c , and and furnishing the instituti 170 on poor is self women -supporting with , the pay means ing salaries of sub- ,
, , sistence , "besides giving them out of the profit of their own work a
supply of blankets and coals at Christmas .
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, accuracy . —Ei > s . E . W . J . Police New and Orleans he , January '' MP , * 1858 is an . — old I have idiot ; talked he oug to ht the to shut Colonel up all of
the churches , wher says e black . men . preach . Last year , 1857 , a law was passedforbidding colored free or slaveto preach ; and
, any person , , I tion oug s ht about to take the school that fe s , llow he says Benj th amin ey are up against . _"f In the answer law , to and my th ques at ho
puts teachers and pupils all in prison when he finds them . "A few woman all slaves months too . , ) I ago who took I had found them got all one a up school of , and your here put dear , them and Yankees thirty in the scholars , lock ( and -up a , almost h pretty ouse ,
* An officer of the law . f The colored pastor of a negro church .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1861, page 111, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101861/page/39/
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