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Not only churches, but moral and religious men, the world over, have begun to read slaveholders out of their communion and companionship.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Not only churches, but moral and religious men, the world over, have begun to read slaveholders out of their communion…”
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Mann notes the growing moral stance against slaveholders by religious and moral leaders globally, indicating a shift in societal values.
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The man of independent circumstances has this liberty; and no man’s circumstances, not even the poorest and the humblest, should be so dependent as to take it away.
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.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
These are but specimens of what the Fugitive Slave law has already done, before the public mind has become familiarized with its brutalities, and while there is yet some sensibility to the claims of justice and mercy left among us.
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