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The slave’s time is too valuable to be lost in a prison, but the white man’s is not; the white man’s skin is too sacred to be flayed or branded, but the slave’s is not.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “The slave’s time is too valuable to be lost in a prison, but the white man’s is not; the white man’s skin is too sacred…”
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Mann critiques the unequal treatment of slaves and white men in the justice system.
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