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This claim, then, is not made for the purpose of making freemen more free, but for making slaves more enslaved.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “This claim, then, is not made for the purpose of making freemen more free, but for making slaves more enslaved.”
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Mann critiques the claim that rights for territorial inhabitants are intended to benefit freedom, arguing they serve to enslave others.
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