Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Notes on Labor Organizations in South Carolina, 1742-1861
It is impossible, from the crude and meagre data so far collected - and it may be questioned whether satisfactory information can ever be gathered - to ascertain the date of the first organization of laboring men, artisans and mechanics, in this State, with the intent to fix wages. Apart from the fact that little appeared in the public prints anywhere about organizations of workingmen, and that their constitutions, price lists, minute books and other papers have been lost, it should be remembered that the investigator of economic conditions in this State, more than in any one of the Old Thirteen, finds the larger majority/ of laborers negro slaves. Recent tentative studies prove that a larger number of these negroes and mulattoes - some of whom gained their freedom - were skilled mechanics than has generally been supposed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
