{"id":547,"date":"2006-10-05T21:44:25","date_gmt":"2006-10-06T02:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/547"},"modified":"2006-10-05T21:44:25","modified_gmt":"2006-10-06T02:44:25","slug":"the-slavery-of-wages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/the-slavery-of-wages\/","title":{"rendered":"The Slavery of Wages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>March 26, 1847<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From Thomas Ingersoll, Westfield, Chaut. Co. N .Y.\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;I have seen the slavery of the South, and the slavery of the North; and, sir, I find little to choose between the slavery of wages and that of no wages; though the slavery of wages supposes, and indeed is proof, of the mental advance of this order of slaves, over him who is yet but a chattel. Yet, sir, the system of wages, as now established, is a biting, galling enslavement. 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