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Horace Mann: “Her black children have sucked her so dry, that now, for a long time past, she has not milk enough for her offspring…”

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Her black children have sucked her so dry, that now, for a long time past, she has not milk enough for her offspring, either black or white.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann critiques the detrimental effects of slavery on Virginia's economy and society.

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