WILMINGTON, MA — The Wilmington Memorial library hosted author Doug Stewart for a lecture on Mill Girls on the afternoon of Monday, December 4.
Entrepreneurs sought out independent, hard-working farm women to help fill the labor void during the American Industrial Revolution, creating the largest gathering of young unmarried, unaccompanied women who earned their own pay. Boston Brahmins, who bankrolled New England’s mills, inadvertently triggered new social forces that rippled across the country.
Watch the lecture, courtesy of Wilmington Community Television, below:
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