[black spacer] "The manner in which these women lived, the squalidness and unhealthy location and nature of their habitations, the impossibility of providing for any of the slightest recreations or moral or intellectual culture or of educating their children can be easily imagined; but we assure the public that it would require an extremely active imagination to conceive the reality."

- New York Daily Tribune, March 7, 1845

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