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While the south were seeking new guaranties for men who claim to own other men, it was a time for the north to demand new guaranties for men who own themselves.
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Mann emphasizes the need for the North to advocate for the rights of free individuals amidst pro-slavery measures.
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Yet, by denying education to the slave, you destroy not merely the right, but the power, of personal examination in regard to all that most nearly concerns the soul’s interests.
But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
Answer: She is in a country in which slavery is established by law.
Mere knowledge, without the moral sense, can take no cognizance of the everlasting distinctions between right and wrong; and so the blind instinct, unguided by knowledge, will be forever at fault in its conclusions.
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