Men Is Cheap: Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America (Luskey - CH) Section - General Custer were caught in the middle

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The Cacophony of Politics shows the limits of ideology and the ways the Civil War—and the nature of nineteenth-century political culture—confounded the Democrats’ self-image and exacerbated their divisions

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both sides regarded the camps as temporary inconveniences—and distractions from the important task of winning the war

Men Is Cheap: Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America (Luskey - CH) Section - General Custer were caught in the middleby Brian P. Luskey When a Civil War substitute broker told business associates that Men is cheep here to Day, he exposed an unsettling contradiction at the heart of the Unions war effort. Despite Northerners' devotion to the principles of free labor, the war produced rampant speculation and coercive labor arrangements that many Americans labeled fraudulent. Debates about this contradiction focused on employment agencies called intelligence offices,