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Slaveholders would not venture to carry slaves into a country, where, at any moment an act of Congress might emancipate them.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Slaveholders would not venture to carry slaves into a country, where, at any moment an act of Congress might emancipate…”
Editor's note · Context
Mann asserts that the threat of emancipation would deter slaveholders from bringing slaves into new territories.
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