American children, just 5 or 6 years old, worked in horrific conditions. In this eyewitness account by John Spargo, who visited cotton mills and interviewed child workers and their parents so as to understand this terrible work for himself, find out how children toiled long hours and discover the terrible impact this had on the health of their young, sickly bodies.

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