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Horace Mann: “I now proceed to consider the nature and effects of slavery, as a reason why new-born communities should be exempted…”

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I now proceed to consider the nature and effects of slavery, as a reason why new-born communities should be exempted from it.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann outlines his intention to discuss the implications of slavery for new communities.

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