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It wounds our moral and religious sensibilities, because we believe the institution to be cruel towards men, and sinful in the sight of Heaven; and yet we are made apparently to sanction it.
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Mann expresses the moral conflict surrounding the institution of slavery and its perceived cruelty.
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The institution of slavery is against natural right.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
This is the reciprocity of slave law.--to be forever liable to be proved guilty, but never able to prove himself innocent; to be subject to all punishments, but, through his own oath, to no protection.
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