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The idea, then, of sending the slaves back to their country is an egregious fallacy.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “The idea, then, of sending the slaves back to their country is an egregious fallacy.”
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Mann critiques the idea of returning enslaved people to Africa as fundamentally flawed.
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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.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
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