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Page 166
You may easily imagine the temper in which Mirabeau and Lafayette welcomed this munificent gift of the free mulattoes of the West Indies , and in which the petition for equal civil rights was received by a body which had just resolved ...
You may easily imagine the temper in which Mirabeau and Lafayette welcomed this munificent gift of the free mulattoes of the West Indies , and in which the petition for equal civil rights was received by a body which had just resolved ...
Page 197
He sought co- operative systems linking capital and labor , the eight - hour day , equal pay for women doing equal work , and an end of the im- portation of underpaid workers . Phillips's weapon for accom- plishing these goals was the ...
He sought co- operative systems linking capital and labor , the eight - hour day , equal pay for women doing equal work , and an end of the im- portation of underpaid workers . Phillips's weapon for accom- plishing these goals was the ...
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quite certain that capital — the child of artificial laws , the product of society , the mere growth of social life — has a right to only an equal burden with labor , the living spring ? We doubt it so much that we think we have ...
quite certain that capital — the child of artificial laws , the product of society , the mere growth of social life — has a right to only an equal burden with labor , the living spring ? We doubt it so much that we think we have ...
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| Title | Wendell Phillips on Civil Rights and Freedom |
| Author | Wendell Phillips |
| Editor | Louis Filler |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | University Press of America, 1982 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 12 Sep 2006 |
| ISBN | 0819127930, 9780819127938 |
| Length | 221 pages |
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