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Horace Mann: “The life of such a man is a perpetual agony of alarm for himself and for his family.”

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The life of such a man is a perpetual agony of alarm for himself and for his family.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann portrays the life of individuals under slavery as filled with constant fear and anxiety.

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