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If they were to be sent back whence they came, it would not be to Africa, but to nonentity.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “If they were to be sent back whence they came, it would not be to Africa, but to nonentity.”
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Mann argues that sending enslaved people back would mean erasing their existence entirely.
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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!
Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
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.
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