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Horace Mann: “The idea is abhorrent to the whole spirit of the constitution.”

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The idea is abhorrent to the whole spirit of the constitution.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann expresses that the concept of slavery contradicts the spirit of the constitution.

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