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Read the history of those slaves who have escaped from bondage; mark their endurance and their contrivance, and let incredulity cease forever.
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Mann encourages readers to learn from the stories of escaped slaves and their resilience.
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The man of independent circumstances has this liberty; and no man’s circumstances, not even the poorest and the humblest, should be so dependent as to take it away.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.
Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
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