Labor, Free and Slave: Workingmen and the Anti-Slavery Movement in the United States by Mandel, Bernard - 1955

New York: Associated Authors, 1955. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition. No jacket. Spine lightly toned and lightly creased, boards lightly soiled, faint stain along page ridge. 1955 Hard Cover. 256 pp. Blue boards. "Bernard Mandel's classic study provides a concise overview of the relationship between organized abolitionism and the fledgling labor movement in the period before the Civil War. Mandel argues that slavery reinforced the powerlessness of white workers north and south, and the racial divisions that it upheld rendered effective labor solidarity impossible. Deep distrust between abolitionists and the working classes, however, compelled northern workers to find their own way into the antislavery ranks.