The local papers were calling out lustily to “checkmate the Freedmen’s League.” This association, it seemed, had “taken upon itself to fix the wages of freedmen at ten dollars per month,” a rate higher than had been heretofore ruling.
Reid discusses the local papers' reaction to the Freedmen’s League and its wage-setting efforts.
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