A Question. Lincoln and Child Labor issue.

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(05-07-2020 12:19 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  Good question. I checked the Collected Works , and Abraham Lincoln never mentioned child labor in a speech, letter, etc.

BTW was it already an issue among the progressives of the day? No proof but my guts tell me he might have been sensitive to it, although he might have thought of it as a necessity. Maybe would he had wanted to favor work and schooling at the same time. We already know he was sensitive to some social issues, like poverty, destitution, children's welfare around him, and needy people in general.