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For personal cruelties, for stripes that shiver his flesh, and blows that break his bones, for robbery or for murder, neither he nor his friends can have preventive, remedy, or recompense.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “For personal cruelties, for stripes that shiver his flesh, and blows that break his bones, for robbery or for murder…”
Editor's note · Context
Mann highlights the complete lack of legal recourse available to slaves who endure severe physical and emotional harm.
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A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
The man of independent circumstances has this liberty; and no man’s circumstances, not even the poorest and the humblest, should be so dependent as to take it away.
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.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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