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Horace Mann: “A universal concomitant of slavery is, that it makes white labor disreputable.”

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A universal concomitant of slavery is, that it makes white labor disreputable.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann points out that slavery tarnishes the reputation of white labor, making it socially unacceptable.

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