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  • The Fabric of Control: Slavery in Antebellum Southern Textile Mills*

  • Randall M. Miller
  • Journal:
    Business History Review / Volume 55 / Issue 4 / Winter 1981
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    11 June 2012, pp. 471-490
    Print publication:
    Winter 1981

  • The factory system in one of its earliest forms—the textile mill—made limited strides in the American South during the closing decades of the slave era. While bondsmen were put to work in mills almost from the beginning, the problem of adapting an agricultural work force to the factory system was one that had to be solved simultaneously with the development of the factory system itself. Since then, historians have wondered whether the use of slaves in early industry was an intensification of the human aspects of bondage or whether it represented a marginal improvement in their physical and spiritual welfare. Professor Miller offers no answer to these questions, nor to those of how widespread or how successful was the use of slaves as factory operatives. He demonstrates, however, that apart from the fact that bondsmen took to factory work more readily than poor whites, the problems to be solved by managers, before a successful degree of efficiency could be achieved, were common to all new industrial systems; clearly, the development of an intelligent disciplinary system, enlightened motivation, and good working conditions were as important in using slaves as in using free labor.

  • The Editor's Corner

  • Journal:
    Business History Review / Volume 55 / Issue 4 / Winter 1981
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    11 June 2012, pp. 562-567
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    Winter 1981
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  • BHR volume 55 issue 4 Cover and Front matter

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    Business History Review / Volume 55 / Issue 4 / Winter 1981
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    11 June 2012, pp. f1-f6
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    Winter 1981
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