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If any mortal should cultivate an abhorrence of slavery, the female sex should do it.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “If any mortal should cultivate an abhorrence of slavery, the female sex should do it.”
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Mann argues that women should have a strong aversion to slavery due to its moral implications and impact on humanity.
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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.
My instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, may all mislead; but from the first time, now years ago, when I heard this subject broached, my instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, have all been in its favor.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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