Nineteenth-century public generosity went only to blameless suffering groups

Evidence

The general public, like Congress, were relatively generous only to sufferers who could be defined, socially at least, as blameless: the sick, the old, the deaf and dumb, the insane. — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 1202

Categorization

• XREF: The blameless/blameworthy welfare distinction connects directly to colonial poor-relief cost-shifting (ch11) — reinforces the continuity of American poor-law logic. — connects to: Nineteenth-century social science ranked peoples into a hierarchy of moral mentalities; Colonial poor-relief commissions substituted race for class in their moral calculus — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 814

Broader Connections

• Nineteenth-century social science ranked peoples into a hierarchy of moral mentalities #expands (0.85)
• Colonial poor-relief commissions substituted race for class in their moral calculus #exemplifies (0.72) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 814