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Now, what better is that result than it would have been had these people been slaves?
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Victoria C. Woodhull
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gutenberg.orgVictoria C. Woodhull: “Now, what better is that result than it would have been had these people been slaves?”
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Here, Woodhull provocatively compares the outcomes of capitalism to slavery, questioning their moral equivalence.
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