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But the fiend of a slave trader was inexorable.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “But the fiend of a slave trader was inexorable.”
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Mann condemns the ruthless nature of slave traders who prioritize profit over human life.
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Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
The kidnapper, Alberti, now lies in a Pennsylvania prison for carrying away a mother and her child; but the mother and the child are now groaning under the lash of a southern taskmaster.
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.
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