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Self-Appointed Leader of the “Four Hundred”
of New York.
“A Prince of Cooks and Coats.”

It was not much: it was rank presumption; it was nonsense, absurd. “There’s no such thing possible in America as class distinction; in fact, it does not exist, cannot exist; the ‘Four Hundred’ of New York is a joke, a by-word, a stupendous folly.”

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The Crime of Caste in Our Country
Author: Benjamin Rush Davenport
Published in 1893
Available from gutenberg.org

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Friday 2 June 2023

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Lawyer, Place:America, Social Leader

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