1. One historian has argued that to portray Nathan Appleton " as a bloated capitalist grinding his heel into the necks and downtrodden workers would be the grossest caricature." Do you agree? how would you characterize him?
2. Sarah Bagley's activites as an antebellum labor leader have only recently begun to be fully appreciated, prompting one historian to predict that eventually she " will be seen as one of the true heroines of her time." Do you agree? should she be studied for that reason or others?