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If such a proceeding does not deprive a man of his freedom, by what means can he be deprived of it?
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “If such a proceeding does not deprive a man of his freedom, by what means can he be deprived of it?”
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Mann challenges the notion of freedom in the context of coercion and slavery.
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The man of independent circumstances has this liberty; and no man’s circumstances, not even the poorest and the humblest, should be so dependent as to take it away.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
These are but specimens of what the Fugitive Slave law has already done, before the public mind has become familiarized with its brutalities, and while there is yet some sensibility to the claims of justice and mercy left among us.
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