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The wickedest white man, in a company of slaves, bears a charmed life.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “The wickedest white man, in a company of slaves, bears a charmed life.”
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This quote illustrates the impunity enjoyed by the worst individuals in the presence of enslaved people.
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The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
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.
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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