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Many who are unable to buy slaves leave it also, because they feel degraded, and cannot prosper, where slavery exists.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Many who are unable to buy slaves leave it also, because they feel degraded, and cannot prosper, where slavery exists.”
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Mann discusses the feelings of degradation experienced by those unable to own slaves in a slave society.
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