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The design of the founders of the Colony was to provide for the poor and unfortunate -- more especially for discharged prisoners -- an asylum in which they might be hoped, when free from the social submergement and weight of disgrace which disabled them in England, to support themselves by honest industry.
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy 1856
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