The Institution of Slavery: Speech of Hon. Horace Mann of Massachusetts. in the House of Representatives, August 17, 1852 caption title

by Horace Mann

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Boston : Commonwealth — Extra at head of first column , 1852. Broadsheet, 22 x 15 3/4 inches, printed on both sides in six columns, bearing only Mann's address. Mann 1796-1859; member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts, 1848-1853 , known as the father of American public education, won John Quincy Adams's seat in Congress after he died and served for five years as an anti-slavery advocate; this speech reaffirms his opposition and

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