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It not only releases the slave himself, but is a prospective and perpetual amnesty,--a true act of oblivion,--for all his descendants.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “It not only releases the slave himself, but is a prospective and perpetual amnesty,--a true act of oblivion,--for all…”
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Mann argues that freeing a slave not only liberates the individual but also offers freedom to future generations.
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A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
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.
These are but specimens of what the Fugitive Slave law has already done, before the public mind has become familiarized with its brutalities, and while there is yet some sensibility to the claims of justice and mercy left among us.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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