The Negro Cotton-Mill Failure
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A short 1901 editorial from The Outlook on the failure of a Charleston, South Carolina cotton mill that employed Black workers. Drawing on a Charlotte Observer interview with the mill manager, it argues that the failure was due to local conditions, such as scarce housing near the mill and workers' alternative livelihoods in oyster-fishing and farming, rather than the supposed unreliability of Black labor. It notes the mill began in 1882 with white labor and also failed under white operators.
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- 1901
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- English
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