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| + | The introduction of new machinery required people of very little skilled labor to operate them. A young man who had spent his whole life working the fields could enter the armory and earn up to sixty dollars a month. Needless to say this did not go over well with the rest of the workers at the Musket Factory. Not only did their skills seem useless but the old ways of working had changed too. The formerly tolerated abuse of workers coming and going to suit the pleasure of each worker were over. Workers were now required to work full time and during fixed hours and the masters of the shop kept log books showing the time actually spent working. Machinery not only changed production but also changed ways of living. | ||
| + | ~Mike Roche | ||
== Frederick Douglass, Beaten in Baltimore == | == Frederick Douglass, Beaten in Baltimore == | ||
