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Now, will not these later oligarchies—the land, the railroad, the money aristocracies—learn a lesson from their terrible fate?
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Victoria C. Woodhull
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Editor's note · Context
She warns contemporary oligarchies to heed the lessons learned from the past failures of the slaveholding class.
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