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Horace Mann: “But I have never known of a single case,--I believe there is no well-authenticated case on record,--where a northern man…”

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But I have never known of a single case,--I believe there is no well-authenticated case on record,--where a northern man has instigated the slaves to rise in rebellion, and to retaliate upon their masters for the wrongs which they and their race have suffered.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Mann asserts that he has never encountered credible evidence of northern instigation of slave rebellions.

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