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Whitelaw Reid: Isn’t it better to have the laws in some way take the matter out of their hands and make them work?

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Isn’t it better to have the laws in some way take the matter out of their hands and make them work?
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Whitelaw Reid

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Reid suggests that laws should intervene to guide the labor of freed individuals.

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