History of the United States I / Unit 9 USH1 1215 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Working Men's Party
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The idea
Thomas Skidmore organised the Working Men's Party, and his eighteen twenty-nine treatise called for the abolition of inheritance and the redistribution of property.
In practice
A demand to end imprisonment for debt, under which a debtor was jailed and his tools seized.
Where people slip
Skidmore's vision extended to all. Women and men, whatever their race, should vote and receive property.
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