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Though slaves are said to be property, they are the preventers, the wasters, the antagonists of property.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Though slaves are said to be property, they are the preventers, the wasters, the antagonists of property.”
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Mann argues that slaves, while considered property, actually hinder economic progress.
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Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
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