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Yet the planter does more than this when he makes a man a slave.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Yet the planter does more than this when he makes a man a slave.”
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Mann argues that slavery inflicts deeper harm than physical injury, affecting the spirit of individuals.
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The man of independent circumstances has this liberty; and no man’s circumstances, not even the poorest and the humblest, should be so dependent as to take it away.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
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