On the record
No more crafty and effective devise for defrauding the southern laborers could be adopted than the one that substitutes orders upon shopkeepers for currency in payment of wages.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “No more crafty and effective devise for defrauding the southern laborers could be adopted than the one that substitutes…”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass critiques a system that substitutes credit for actual currency, which exploits laborers.
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