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He transfers a whole state, with all its beating hearts, present and future; with all its infinite susceptibilities of weal and woe, from the side of freedom to that of slavery, in the ledger book of humanity.
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Mann powerfully illustrates the grave consequences of transferring a state from freedom to slavery.
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