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Horace Mann: “Generally, ignorance is a necessary concomitant of slavery.”

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Generally, ignorance is a necessary concomitant of slavery.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann asserts that ignorance is an inherent aspect of slavery, linking the two concepts closely together.

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