Vulgar words in The Woman Who Toils - Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls (Page 1)
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He has a slender visage of the frailness I have learned to know and distinguish: it represents the pure American type of people known as "poor white trash," and with whose blood has been scarcely any admixture of foreign element.
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If this means content in servitude, if this means that the poor white trash are born slaves, or if, on the contrary, it means that there is something inherent in a woman that will carry her past suicide and past idiocy and degradation, all of which is around her, I think it argues well for the working women.
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I quote from the illustrated supplement of the South Carolina _State_ that you may see what the mill manufacturers think of the quality of the "poor white trash": "The operatives in the South Carolina mills are the common people--the bone and sinew who have left the fields to the Negroes.