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In my conscientious opinion, slavery exists in this District only by original usurpation and subsequent acquiescence.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “In my conscientious opinion, slavery exists in this District only by original usurpation and subsequent acquiescence.”
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Mann argues that slavery in the District of Columbia is based on usurpation rather than legal grounds.
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A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.
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