At 04:13 PM 9/18/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>>the anti-Bellum south did a pretty good job "defending" its slavery by
>>pointing out that the north was populated with wage slaves. any
>>historians out there conversant with the wage slave dialogue -- then or
>>now? can't find much on it since, evidently, it hits to close to home
>>in our mercantile society.
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>>R
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>George Fitzhugh, _Cannibals All!_; you might also look at William
>Freehling, _Secessionists at Bay_
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>Brad Delong