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Horace Mann: “Wherever the wicked passions of the human heart can go, there slavery can go.”

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Wherever the wicked passions of the human heart can go, there slavery can go.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann states that the potential for slavery exists wherever human passions can manifest.

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