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The bill proposes the abolition, not of slavery, but only of the slave trade, in the District of Columbia.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “The bill proposes the abolition, not of slavery, but only of the slave trade, in the District of Columbia.”
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Mann clarifies that the bill aims to abolish the slave trade, not slavery itself, in the District of Columbia.
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