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It seems to me quite as inconvenient for a free man to lose his liberty, as for a slaveholder to lose his slave.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “It seems to me quite as inconvenient for a free man to lose his liberty, as for a slaveholder to lose his slave.”
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Mann highlights the equal inconvenience of losing liberty for both free individuals and slaveholders.
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