And the argument, that if a man be wrongfully consigned to bondage he may be afterwards restored to freedom, is as audacious and as tyrannical as to say that an innocent man may be hanged and sent into another world as a felon, because sometimes the dead have been restored to life.
Mann critiques the argument that wrongful enslavement can be rectified later, equating it to the wrongful execution of an innocent person.
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Old Virginia was the first to sow this land of ours with slavery; she is also the first to reap the full harvest of destruction.
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