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If the cold of the higher latitudes checks the flow of African blood, or benumbs African limbs, the slaveholder knows very well that a trifling extra expense for whips will make up for the difference.
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Mann discusses the harsh realities of slavery and the lengths slaveholders would go to maintain control.
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