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Horace Mann: “The constitution is ashamed to utter such a name.”

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The constitution is ashamed to utter such a name.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Mann suggests that the Constitution is reluctant to acknowledge slavery by not using the term 'slave.'

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