HIST 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Second Great Awakening, Moral Evil, Lowkey
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Lecture 9: free soil, free labor, free men: anti slavery and the abolitionism in the. Free soil, free labor, free men: anti slavery and abolitionism in the antebellum north. Say they don"t want cities and claimed they were agricultural people. Urban populations increasing but most lived in rural areas. Not concentrated in cities like southerners thought. Oppose wage labor - although, they see wage labour as a step towards. Free labour (it was okay to be paid early on as it allowed you to work for free later, since you become financially stable to buy your own farm and business) Yeomen: virtuous individuals who work for the betterment of their nation. Peasantry: lived on gentry land and worked for living. Wage working class grows too large to be economically and politically independent. Yeoman need to work harder to sustain themselves and can no longer focus on the betterment of their nation. Enhanced transportation networks and helped get message out.
