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He knew how he could transmute her charms into gold through the fires of sin.
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Mann illustrates the depravity of slave traders who exploit the beauty of enslaved women for financial gain.
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Cast it off, West Virginians, whilst yet you have the power; for if you let it descend unbroken to your children, it will have grown to a mountain of misery upon their heads.
It is only in the land of slaves that they are blotted out and annihilated.
The wickedest white man, in a company of slaves, bears a charmed life.
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.
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