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Whatever has been taught by sage, or sung by poet, in favor of freedom, is a virtual condemnation of slavery.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Mann argues that any advocacy for freedom implicitly condemns slavery.

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