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This Dust Was Once the Man

This dust was once the man, Gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand, Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, Was saved the Union of these States


Walt Whitman


Who is "the man" the dust now represents?

The narrator

A criminal

Whitman

Lincoln

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Answer:

A criminal

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User Loki L
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I believe it is referring to slavery as the cruelest crime known to man which resolutes to lincoln
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