On the record
These slaves, by the law of nature, were as free as you or I.
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Mann emphasizes the inherent freedom of all individuals, regardless of their status as slaves.
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Is there not one spot where we can stand side by side, as friends, sympathize with each other, and act together in harmony?
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.
Behind these forty-one indictments for stealing stand drawn up, in battle array, against this same prisoner, seventy-four other indictments for transporting the very slaves whom he is charged to have stolen.
He that chooses to employ a sort of labor that yields only half as much to the hand as another sort would yield, makes a choice that is not only unprofitable, but deeply injurious to his interest.
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