Before we can determine whether Northern wage workers were capable of exercising freedom, we must know what freedom is. According to www.dictionary.com, freedom is the power of self-determined attribution to the will; or the quality of being independent, the power or right to act, think or speak, without hindrance or restriction. Wage workers may have worked long hours for little pay, but they were more than capable of choosing and making decisions for themselves and did not have such negative conditions. to "enslave" the people. Chattel slavery constituted the maximum expression of the denial of freedom” (Pg 341). What the book tries to say is that people have always wanted to take away freedom and enslave people, but black slavery took it to an extreme level. Compared to slaves, wage workers had greater freedom. Slavery might have had better conditions such as: clothing and medical care, according to the New York Historical Society but, wage workers could leave their jobs and go...