Men Is Cheap: Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America (Luskey - CH) Picture by Scott L

by Scott L

by Rick Atkinson

Sometimes their nightly visions brought the horrors of the conflict vividly to life

and drill tactics

cutting his teeth as a military leader

Men Is Cheap: Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America (Luskey - CH) Picture by Scott Lby 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,