Men Is Cheap: Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America (Luskey - CH) Picture The alchemy of creative genius

The alchemy of creative genius

Despite his major achievements in war and peace

A unique example of photographic detective work in which the famous battle is re-created almost as if it were a contemporary news event

their passionate conflict of words and ideas has been overshadowed by their opposition to Abraham Lincoln

Men Is Cheap: Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America (Luskey - CH) Picture The alchemy of creative geniusby Brian P. Luskey When a Civil War substitute broker told business associates that Men is cheep here to Day, he exposed an unsettling contradiction at the heart of the Unions war effort. Despite Northerners' devotion to the principles of free labor, the war produced rampant speculation and coercive labor arrangements that many Americans labeled fraudulent. Debates about this contradiction focused on employment agencies called intelligence offices,