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The slave child must be allowed to use his limbs, or how could he drudge out his life in the service of his master?
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Mann emphasizes the necessity of physical freedom for enslaved children to survive and serve their masters.

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