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Yet the planter does more than this when he makes a man a slave.
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Mann argues that slavery inflicts deeper harm than physical injury, affecting the spirit of individuals.
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But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
Her lowland neighbors of Maryland and the Carolinas were not far behind at the seeding; nor are they far behind at the ingathering of desolation.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
What rights are more sacred or more dear to us than the conjugal and the parental?
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