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on farms in rural areas. These institutions--often called poor farms--differed from the large urban workhouses associated with Victorian England and some American cities. Workhouses in Britain were typically designed primarily as labor institutions intended to discourage reliance on public relief, whereas American poorhouses served as residential institutions that housed a broad range of people in need of support. By the mid-nineteenth century, nearly every county in the

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