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"To be victims of pain and misery unhappily is the lot of a large portion of every community, to alleviate whose sufferings is the unquestionable duty of the remainder ..."--Foreign quarterly review, Feb. 1830, page 40. : Sir, Apprehensive that, in my past communications on the subject of the inadequacy of the wages of various species of female labour ... I have confined myself too much to the physical sufferings it produces, and thus not laid sufficient emphasis on the degradation, the corruption, and the wickedness that result from it; I am therefore induced to resume the subject ..
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"To be victims of pain and misery unhappily is the lot of a large portion of every community, to alleviate whose sufferings is the unquestionable duty of the remainder ..."--Foreign quarterly review, Feb. 1830, page 40. : Sir, Apprehensive that, in my past communications on the subject of the inadequacy of the wages of various species of female labour ... I have confined myself too much to the physical sufferings it produces, and thus not laid sufficient emphasis on the degradation, the corruption, and the wickedness that result from it; I am therefore induced to resume the subject ... [electronic resource]
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[Philadelphia : s.n., 1830]
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1 sheet ([2] p.) ; 26 x 21 cm.
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Signed and dated: Philadelphia, April 28, 1830. M. Carey.
Includes text of a paper, dated April 5, 1830, signed by "thirteen ladies of the first respectability and intelligence, in New York" concerning the conditions of women employed as seamstresses and supporting "some means of remedy ... of their sufferings," and, on p. [2], extracts of Carey's correspondence on the subject.
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Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2005. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (American broadsides and ephemera. First series ; no. 3828).
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English
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June 20, 2008
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