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... it is more than petty treason to the Republic, to call a free citizen a servant. The whole class of young women, whose bread depends upon their labour, are taught to believe that the most abject poverty is preferable to domestic service. Hundreds of half-naked girls work in the paper-mills, or in any other manufactory, for less than half the wages they would receive in service; but they think their equality is compromised by the latter, and nothing but the wish to obtain some particular article of finery will ever induce them to submit to it. - Frances Trollope
Attribution: Frances Trollope (1780–1863), British author. Domestic Manners of the Americans, ch. 6 (1832). Trollope had recently travelled extensively in the United States, to which she was referring here.

Categories: Author, Domestic Work, Factory Work, Service

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