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John Quincy Adams sounded the alarm; but men were so engrossed by their business, and by their paltry local and temporary political strifes, that even his voice, potent and prophetic as it was, passed by unheeded.
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Mann highlights the failure of society to heed John Quincy Adams' warnings about the dangers of slavery.
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