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Throughout the text, some names have been changed.

Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, Part III: Historical Materialism, in Marx & Engels Selected Works, Volume 3 (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1970).

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Mary Bilder, The Struggle over Immigration: Indentured Servants, Slaves, and Articles of Commerce, in Mo. Law Review 61, no. 4 (1996): 749.

Ibid., 753.

Ibid., 7567, 761.

Ibid., 762.

Ibid., 776, 767.

Ibid., 769.

Ibid., 750, 808.

Ibid., 799.

Ibid., 807.

Ibid., 8223.

Ibid., 824.

Edward C. Carter, A Wild Irishman Under Every Federalists Bed: Naturalization in Philadelphia, 17891806,