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Horace Mann: “But all these sacred protections are denied to the slave.”

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But all these sacred protections are denied to the slave.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Mann underscores the tragic reality that enslaved individuals are denied the legal protections afforded to others.

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