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Does not every body know that any man, who is capable of the enormous guilt of seizing or buying a freeman, will make it impossible for that freeman to regain his birthright?
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Does not every body know that any man, who is capable of the enormous guilt of seizing or buying a freeman, will make it…”
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Mann asserts that those who commit the crime of kidnapping a free person will obstruct their path to reclaiming freedom.
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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.
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