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Webster declared it to be a natural impossibility that African slavery could ever exist “in California or New Mexico.” (p. 42.) He now defines the southern boundary of New Mexico.
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Mann critiques Webster's stance on slavery in California and New Mexico, highlighting a contradiction in his statements.
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