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Part One: The War On Vagrants

Behind the Bastards

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The Rise and Fall of the Charity Reform Movement

In the 1870s, right after the Civil War, the US has its first really great depression. One of the things that happens is there's a huge increase in starving people begging for money. And this really pisses off a large number of kind of like upper-class liberals who were staunch abolitionists.

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