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I said that the slave does not know much of geography; but he understands enough of it to know where lies the free frontier.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “I said that the slave does not know much of geography; but he understands enough of it to know where lies the free…”
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Mann reflects on the limited geographical knowledge of slaves, highlighting their awareness of freedom's location.
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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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.
Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
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