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Horace Mann: “The aged and the infant she left for the vultures; but the strong men and the strong women she drove, scourged and…”

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The aged and the infant she left for the vultures; but the strong men and the strong women she drove, scourged and bleeding, to the shore.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann illustrates the brutal treatment of enslaved individuals during their forced transportation.

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