Quotes from Steven Hahn

Sherman issued Special Field Orders No. 15, "reserv[ing] and set[ting] apart for the settlement of the negroes . . . the islands from Charleston south, the abandoned rice-fields along the rivers for thirty miles back from the sea, and the country bordering the St. John's River, Florida," to be subdivided "so that each family shall have a plot of not more than forty acres of tillable ground.

Some would even support the reopening of the African slave trade so that men like them could expand their labor force and non-slaveholders might have the opportunity to join the slaveholding class.

Capitalism set out as the opponent of privilege and the champion of freedom," Rauschenbusch wrote, "it has ended by being the defender of privilege and the intrenchment of autocracy.

Rallying to the cry of "free soil, free speech, free labor, and free men