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Horace Mann: “The commercial and manufacturing interests of the north, then, have been deceived, grossly deceived and imposed upon.”

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The commercial and manufacturing interests of the north, then, have been deceived, grossly deceived and imposed upon.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann asserts that the northern commercial and manufacturing interests have been misled regarding slavery.

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