It has only relieved them from one form of slavery to leave them at the mercy of another still more insidious in its character, because more plausible; since, if penury and want exist, accompanied by suffering and privation, under the rule of a monarch, he may justly be held responsible.
Woodhull argues that freedom has not eliminated slavery but has replaced it with a more insidious form of control.
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