PlantationvsFactory

**Description** You will compare the rules governing work enforced on two plantations and in two factories during the 19th century. By doing so, you will develop a deeper understanding of the ideas put forward in the student essays "[|Why A Plantation?]" and "[|Why A Factory?]"

Answer the questions

Below are two historical documents that give insight about the working conditions in New England textile mills.

. Click on an image to see a full-size version Follow these links to read historical documents about the management of plantations and slaves:
 * [[image:http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/whole_cloth/u2ei/u2images/act9/Lew_sm.jpg width="107" height="139" link="http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/whole_cloth/u2ei/u2images/act9/Lew_rules.html"]] ||
 * Lewiston Mill rules ||
 * [[image:http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/whole_cloth/u2ei/u2images/act9/time_sm.jpg width="107" height="139" link="http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/whole_cloth/u2ei/u2images/act9/time_tbl.html"]] ||
 * Time Table of Lowell Mills ||

[|Plantation Management, DeBow's, xiv (February 1853): 177-8.] [|[[http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/whole_cloth/u2ei/u2materials/pRules.html|lantation Rules, from Ulrich Phillips, ed., //Plantation and Frontier, Volume 1 (New York: Burt Franklin, 1910)//]]]

http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/whole_cloth/u2ei/index.html