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A man may not lose a horse without a right to this trial; but he may his freedom.
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Mann emphasizes the disparity in legal rights between property and personal freedom, arguing for the value of human liberty.
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This ruinous system of large farms cultivated by slaves showed its effects in Italy, eighteen hundred years ago, when the Roman empire was at the height of its grandeur.
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.
The aged and the infant she left for the vultures; but the strong men and the strong women she drove, scourged and bleeding, to the shore.
Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
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