This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...the coastal plain, into which the mills have also penetrated, though not in such numbers as exist in the Piedmont. The racial stock in the mountain regions is English, with an admixture of Scotch-Irish. In the Piedmont section Scotch-Irish, with a good proportion of English and German stock, German colonies ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...the coastal plain, into which the mills have also penetrated, though not in such numbers as exist in the Piedmont. The racial stock in the mountain regions is English, with an admixture of Scotch-Irish. In the Piedmont section Scotch-Irish, with a good proportion of English and German stock, German colonies having settled this region before the Revolution. In the Cape Fear section of North Carolina, the Highland Scotch form the chief supply of cotton mill labor, and in the cotton mills of the coastal plain the English stock predominates. The people on the tenant farms, or from farms of their own in mountain coves and the sandy region of the coastal plain, had small opportunities for education on account of the short school terms and the use of the children on the farms; The churches, though numerous, were generally occupied once or twice a month, the majority of the people, except in the Scotch and Scotch-Irish regions where they are Presbyterians, being members of the Methodist and Baptist Churches. When they came to the cotton mills, school buildings were in most cases accessible, but the demand for the labor of the children left the schools stripped of children over ten or twelve years of age, the age depending upon the standards of the state child labor law of the period and its enforcement. Until very recently, children of ten years of age could be employed by law in South Carolina and Georgia, and there was little enforcement of the law which established a twelve-year age-limit. In North Carolina the statutes still permit the employment of children of twelve years and there is practically no enforcement of the law. In addition to the employment of children at an early age, there was the long working day to be considered, at first with no...
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Good Only. Book Written with the theme of "Christianity and the World's Workers"-addressing the call to service, city industries, workers in mountains and mills, the Negro laborers, in lumber camps and mines, and justice and brotherhood. Illustrated. Light exterior wear; moisture marks around the edges of the front pages.
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