[Michigan]:

$375 · Offered by William Reese Company

REPORT OF THE GREAT RAILROAD CONSPIRACY CASE. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN, VERSUS ABEL FITCH AND OTHERS, COMMONLY CALLED THE RAIL ROAD CONSPIRATORS: TRIED BEFORE HIS HONOR WARNER ... The situation in Michigan in the mid-1840's foreshadowed a struggle which became more prominent - and more inequitable - after the Civil War. The Michigan Central Railroad opened the fertile area up for agricultural development by providing transportation, but it also put the farmers at the mercy of the line as far as freight rates. In an era before any regulatory control, the line played favorites to friends and squeezed the small farmers. The latter responded with sabotage, and it was the agrarian vs. technology. An early and important case suggesting much of what was to come on the American landscape.

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