The Lower Sort: Philadelphia's Laboring People, 1750-1800 by Billy G. Smith

The Lower Sort: Philadelphia's Laboring People, 1750-1800

Billy G. Smith

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nonfiction history politics sociology medium-paced
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This book recreates the daily lives of laboring men and women in America's premier urban center during the second half of the eighteenth century. Billy G. Smith demonstrates how the lower sort (as they were called by their contemporaries) struggle...

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