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Slavery depends, not upon climate, but upon conscience.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Slavery depends, not upon climate, but upon conscience.”
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Mann asserts that the existence of slavery is rooted in moral conscience rather than environmental factors.
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The man of independent circumstances has this liberty; and no man’s circumstances, not even the poorest and the humblest, should be so dependent as to take it away.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
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