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Not a single ameliorating law has been passed.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Not a single ameliorating law has been passed.”
Editor's note · Context
Mann states that no laws have been enacted to improve the conditions of slaves, highlighting a lack of progress.
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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.
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