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You do not need their color to remind you of their degradation.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “You do not need their color to remind you of their degradation.”
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Mann argues that the degradation of enslaved individuals is evident without visual cues.
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A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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