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Victoria C. Woodhull: “Common schools for children, and the public press for adults, have done and are doing the work of emancipation.”

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Common schools for children, and the public press for adults, have done and are doing the work of emancipation.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull highlights the role of common schools and the press in the emancipation of society.

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