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“many white Americans viewed laws designed to constrain and marginalize free Black people as entirely justifiable within a broader legal and cultural tradition that encouraged state and local governments to regulate groups of people who were construed to be dependent and potentially disruptive, including paupers, vagrants, wives, and children.”

Kate Masur, Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
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Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction by Kate Masur
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