What was the lived experience of child laborers? Describe their lives.

There was a time in this country when young children routinely worked legally. As industry grew in the period following the Civil War, children, often as young as 10 years old but sometimes much younger, labored. They worked not only in industrial settings but also in retail stores, on the streets, on farms, and in home-based industries.

The golf links lie so near the mill

That almost every day

The laboring children can look out

And see the men at play.1

—Sarah N. Cleghorn

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