The Market Revolution Primary Sources
Historical documents. What clues can you gather about the time, place, players, and culture?
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The Center for Lowell History, sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Lowell Libraries, maintains a site dedicated to the region's history, including a page dedicated to "Mill Life in Lowell: 1820–1880." Company records, letters written by mill girls, images, diaries, and factory rules are among the primary sources made available on this site.
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A website dedicated to Charles Finney, the most important figure of the Second Great Awakening and the formation of American evangelicalism, includes numerous Finney sermons and writings.
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Several works by Sylvester Graham, the health and diet reformer, are available here.
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Henry Clay's Senate speech, "In Defense of the American System," is available here.
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The Lowell Offering, a literary magazine produced by the women operatives of the Lowell Mills between 1840 and 1845, is available here.