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The Huron County Poor Farm: A 19th Century solution to poverty and social welfare

In the mid-19th Century, the United States saw the emergence of poor houses as a modern solution to poverty. These institutions provided shelter and work for impoverished individuals in exchange for ...
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Expelling the poor : Atlantic Seaboard states and the nineteenth-century origins of American immigration policy / Hidetaka Hirota

"Expelling the Poor examines the origins of immigration restriction in the United States, especially deportation policy. Based on an analysis of immigration policies in major American coastal states, ...