In the early 1800s, the commercial advertisements by mill owners in publications such as the Lowell Offering accomplished all of the following EXCEPT
A) attracted new investors to the business.
B) attracted new young single women from New England farms to work in the mill factories and live in the mill towns.
C) exaggerated the benevolence of the mill owners and the healthy and virtuous working conditions and good life of the young single women who labored in these factories and lived in these factory towns.
D) recurited child laborers as young as 10-years old to replace the single young women who proved to be recalcitrant and incompetent workers.
Answer: D
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