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He knew how he could transmute her charms into gold through the fires of sin.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “He knew how he could transmute her charms into gold through the fires of sin.”
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Mann illustrates the depravity of slave traders who exploit the beauty of enslaved women for financial gain.
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Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
My instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, may all mislead; but from the first time, now years ago, when I heard this subject broached, my instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, have all been in its favor.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.
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