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I have here been combating the argument, that because the Fugitive Slave law is aimed at slaves, no freeman has any ground of complaint against it, even though he should be converted into a chattel under it.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “I have here been combating the argument, that because the Fugitive Slave law is aimed at slaves, no freeman has any…”
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Mann challenges the notion that freemen should not complain about the Fugitive Slave Law.
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