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Horace Mann: “Nothing stands upon a more adamantine basis of truth than the principles which decide between Human Freedom and Human…”

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Nothing stands upon a more adamantine basis of truth than the principles which decide between Human Freedom and Human Slavery.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann asserts that the principles of freedom and slavery are grounded in undeniable truths.

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