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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

Book by Nancy Isenberg · 4 quotes · Class, Economics, Poverty

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“For most Americans of the eighteenth century, it was assumed impossible for a servant to shed his lowly origins; the meaner sort, as one newspaper insisted, could never “wash out the stain of servility.” There were fears that the meaner sort were treading too close on the heels of those above them.”