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The slave worker is forever prying at the short end of Nature’s lever, and using the back instead of the edge of her finest instruments.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “The slave worker is forever prying at the short end of Nature’s lever, and using the back instead of the edge of her…”
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This statement critiques the limitations imposed on enslaved individuals and their ability to utilize nature's resources effectively.
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My instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, may all mislead; but from the first time, now years ago, when I heard this subject broached, my instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, have all been in its favor.
I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
These are but specimens of what the Fugitive Slave law has already done, before the public mind has become familiarized with its brutalities, and while there is yet some sensibility to the claims of justice and mercy left among us.
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