Horace Mann: “Out of five hundred and seventy-two patents issued in 1847, only…”

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Out of five hundred and seventy-two patents issued in 1847, only sixty-six went to the slave states.

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Mann highlights the disparity in patent issuance between slave states and free states to argue against slavery's impact on innovation.

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A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.

Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?

Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!

The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.

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Horace Mann: “Out of five hundred and seventy-two patents issued in 1847, only sixty-six went to the slave states.”