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Does any one say that a victim of this law has not been “deprived” of his liberty because he may sue for it, and possibly recover it, in the courts of the state to which he is carried?
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Mann questions the validity of claiming one is not deprived of liberty if they can only sue for it under oppressive conditions.
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