Horace Mann: “If American slaves are better off than native Africans, who is to be…”

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If American slaves are better off than native Africans, who is to be thanked for it?

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Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann challenges the justification of slavery by questioning who benefits from the improved conditions of American slaves compared to native Africans.

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The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.

Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.

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.

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Horace Mann: “If American slaves are better off than native Africans, who is to be thanked for it?”