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Horace Mann: “Will you mutilate them, or scourge them till within a minute of death?”

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Will you mutilate them, or scourge them till within a minute of death?
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Mann condemns the brutal punishments inflicted on enslaved individuals as a means of control.

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