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Now, the slightest reflection shows that this assumption has no basis of truth.
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Mann asserts that a common assumption about slavery lacks any factual basis, urging critical thinking.
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Cast it off, West Virginians, whilst yet you have the power; for if you let it descend unbroken to your children, it will have grown to a mountain of misery upon their heads.
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.
Packed and stowed like merchandise between unventilated decks, so close that the tempest without could not ruffle the pestilential air within, the voyage was begun.
Her black children have sucked her so dry, that now, for a long time past, she has not milk enough for her offspring, either black or white.
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