It was a revolutionary idea for its time.Caro’s fleet, assured debut centers on class and love in the late 19th century in what was then America’s most prim city, Boston. They wanted to prove that factory work could be decent work that could also turn a profit.
Lies-When the owners bought the prime land in what was then Chelmsford, near the 30-foot waterfall that would power the Lowell mill, they told the farmers they were buying it for a hunting preserve, a place to shoot waterfowl.No big, ugly, noisy, stinky mill here, no sir!.He helped set up the first water-powered mill in Slatersville, RI in 1790. Theft- Samuel Slater’sindustrial espionage that memorized the workings of British textile technology and carried it back to America.The textile industry was based on four things: Textile manufacturing was one of the great industries in New England at that time, and it grew rapidly to fill the need for clothing to cover the country’s burgeoning population, the waves of new immigrants coming to our shores, and the slaves who picked the cotton that the mills turned into cloth. Ms. Zaroulis’s story of Sabra Palfrey illustrates how the money was made to fund the trusts and shows the other side of Beacon Hill wealth.
Call the Darkness Light by Nancy Zaroulis is the engrossing story of a “Yankee mill girl” in Lawrence and Lowell, Massachusetts two decades before the Civil War. My reading into nineteenth century Boston and yesterday’s post about the “spendthrift trusts”reminded me of one of my favorite books.
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