"It is an abuse of language to talk of the slavery of wages. ... We cannot see that it is wrong to give or receive wages."
— Wage slavery

January 1, 1970

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William Lloyd Garrison, as quoted in Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction (2012), by Allen C. Guelzo, Chapter One