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But a minority of seven from the slaveholding states controlled a majority of sixteen from the free states,--ominous even at that early day of a fate that has now relentlessly pursued us for sixty years.
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Mann reflects on the early political dynamics that foreshadowed the ongoing conflict over slavery in America.
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