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That Act contained, as Lord Kimberley confessed, some startling clauses, and its object was in fact to place blacks under the necessity of working for whites at low wages.
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John Morley
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Morley critiques the Vagrant Act for its exploitative clauses aimed at black laborers in South Africa.
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