History A-Level
'Wage slave' argument
What 'Wage slave' argument means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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A critique of Northern industrial capitalism used by Southern writers to defend the paternalistic ideology of slavery.
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- Compromise and Conflict
- Free-soilers
- Manifest Destiny
- Paternalism
- Political leadership
- Pro-slavery ideology
- Sectional controversy
- Slave Power
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