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has gloss | eng: The free produce movement was a boycott against goods produced by slave labor. It came about as a method to fight slavery by having consumers buy only produce derived from non-slave labor; labor from free men and women who were paid for their toil. The movement was active from the beginning of the abolitionist movement in the 1790s to the end of slavery in the United States in the 1860s. ). It does not mean "without cost". Similarly, "produce" is used to mean "anything produced by human agricultural labor". |
lexicalization | eng: Free Produce movement |
instance of | c/Defunct American political movements |
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