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From this moment, then, let all feelings of alienation or repugnance be banished from between us.
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Mann urges the audience to set aside feelings of alienation to foster a more constructive dialogue.
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So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
The general system of slaveholding farmers and planters, in all times and places, has been, and now is, and ever will be, to cultivate much land, badly, for present gain,--in short, to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
Her black children have sucked her so dry, that now, for a long time past, she has not milk enough for her offspring, either black or white.
Behind these forty-one indictments for stealing stand drawn up, in battle array, against this same prisoner, seventy-four other indictments for transporting the very slaves whom he is charged to have stolen.
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