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Charles Sumner: “How much for a quit-claim to labor now meanly exacted by the strong from the weak?”

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How much for a quit-claim to labor now meanly exacted by the strong from the weak?
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner inquires about the compensation for labor that is unjustly extracted from the weak by the strong.

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