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Horace Mann: “This demonstrates that they thought slavery could exist there.”

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This demonstrates that they thought slavery could exist there.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann points out that the Mexican commissioners believed slavery could potentially exist in the territories.

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