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Virginia and Maryland are to the slave trade what the interior of Africa once was.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Virginia and Maryland are to the slave trade what the interior of Africa once was.”
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Mann compares Virginia and Maryland's role in the slave trade to that of Africa's interior, emphasizing their complicity.
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