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Read a letter from your cousin Harriet

My dear cousin,.

I'm going to take the second loom without complaining. You should too. I know I can do it, and you are even better in the weave room than I am. Goodness knows, we can use the extra money we will. It's true the rate of pay will be lower, but we'll be making more cloth. If the owners don't make a profit, they will shut down the mill. Then where would we be - back home on our fathers' farms with no chance of improving ourselves? Don't go to that rally. Nice women don't make a public fuss - we bring about change by quietly persuading men to do the right thing..

Harriet Bigelow.