Changes Over Time
This file appears in: Site 1: Jonte Equen's Home — The Birth of the Association: The Screwmen's Benevolent Association Organized
This is the building that now occupies the site of Jonte Equen's home. He hosted a group of screwmen in his home after work one evening. Here, they formed one of the first and strongest labor unions in the slaveholding south.
This file appears in: Site 1: Jonte Equen's Home — The Birth of the Association: The Screwmen's Benevolent Association Organized
Site 1: Jonte Equen's Home — The Birth of the Association: The Screwmen's Benevolent Association Organized
On the evening of November 18, 1850, 121 screwmen put down their jackscrews and emerged from the dark, cramped hulls that they had been toiling in since early that morning. They made their way down…