 | Joseph Glatthaar - 2008 - 627 pages
...the US Senate floor in 1858, James Henry Hammond of South Carolina explained that in all societies "there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgeries of life." This group "constitutes the very mudsill of society." In the North, it was the... | |
 | Frank Thistlethwaite - 1988 - 356 pages
...144 .CHAPTER VII THE DEMOCRATIC IDEA AND THE PROBLEM OF CASTE: THE TESTING TIME OF CIVIL WAR 1850-75 'In all social systems there must be a class to do...the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life . . . requiring but a low order of intellect and but little skill. Its requisites are vigor, docility,... | |
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In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. 
