Excerpts from Rev. Robert Crawford’s diary about labor issues, Haymarket and Westfield Normal School

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Robert Crawford was a Congregationalist minister at the “Orthodox Society” in Deerfield, Massachusetts. The society had been formed in the 1830s, in response to liberal trends in the Congregationalist church. Crawford was born in Scotland and migrated to Canada, where he was a canal worker.  Although he viewed the world through the eyes of a conservative believer in tradition, he seems sympathetic to the plight of the worker. Here he comments on the “conflict between capital and labor,” perhaps a reference to the recent violence in Chicago known as the “Haymarket riot.” (May 4, 1886)

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Item typePersonal Documents
Diary, Journal
AuthorCrawford, Rev. Robert
Date1886–1894
PlaceDeerfield, Massachusetts
TopicReligion, Church, Meetings & Revivals
Industry, Occupation, Work
Education, Literacy
EraRise of Industrial America, 1878–1899
MaterialPaper
Process/FormatHandwriting; Ink
Dimension detailsProcess Material: manuscript, paper, ink Height: 8.25 in Width: 5.25 in
Catalog #L07.022
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Crawford, Rev. Robert. Excerpts from Rev. Robert Crawford’s diary about labor issues, Haymarket and Westfield Normal School. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/l07-022/. Accessed on November 9, 2024.

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