Horace Mann: “And how infinitely absurd and ridiculous is the plea that the slaves…”

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And how infinitely absurd and ridiculous is the plea that the slaves are better off here “than THEY would have been in Africa”!

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Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann criticizes the absurd justification for slavery based on the supposed welfare of enslaved individuals.

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The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.

Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.

Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!

Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?

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Horace Mann: “And how infinitely absurd and ridiculous is the plea that the slaves are better off here “than THEY would have been in…”