All assertions that the Chinese emigrants can be reduced to a system of slavery among us are humbuggery of the first water.
Victoria C. Woodhull: “All assertions that the Chinese emigrants can be reduced to a system of slavery among us are humbuggery of the first…”
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Woodhull dismisses claims that Chinese emigrants can be enslaved as false and misleading.
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