Useful Links
Description of daily life in the mills
https://www.nps.gov/lowe/learn/historyculture/the-mill-girls-of-lowell.htm Lowell Mill Women Create the First Union of Working Women https://aflcio.org/about/history/labor-history-events/lowell-mill-women-form-union Native American Mill Girl During the 1830s and 1840s, Betsey Guppy Chamberlain (daughter of an Algonquian woman) worked in the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts and wrote stories for two workers’ magazines. A brave and pioneering author, Chamberlain wrote the earliest known Native American fiction and some of the earliest nonfiction about the persecution of Native people. https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2015/10/betsey-guppy-chamberlain.html The life and writings of Betsey Chamberlain : Native American mill worker / Judith A. Ranta. https://read.cnu.edu/record=b1254708~S0 |
Primary Sources
Primary source set:
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/spotlight-primary-source/lowell-mill-girls-and-factory-system-1840
75 Young Women From 15-35 Years of Age, Wanted to work in the Cotton Mills!
https://wams.nyhistory.org/building-a-new-nation/american-woman/mill-girls/
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/spotlight-primary-source/lowell-mill-girls-and-factory-system-1840
75 Young Women From 15-35 Years of Age, Wanted to work in the Cotton Mills!
https://wams.nyhistory.org/building-a-new-nation/american-woman/mill-girls/