Title
The Belles of New England
Subtitle
The Women of the Textile Mills and the Families Whose Wealth They Wove
This is a story of young women who left New England farm towns to work in the textile cities in the region in the early 19th century.
Generations of immigrants followed these women into the mills and changed Yankee New England. Some came from as far away
as Ireland the the farms of Quebec and countries of Europe. Historical figures from the blue-blooded Cabots & Lowells of Boston to the
Southern slaves who supplied cotton to the mills are portrayed in the book. After World War II the workers watched as their looms
and jobs vanished from New England to the southern states.
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Collection
Lawrence History Center Library
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