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The constitution is ashamed to utter such a name.
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Mann suggests that the Constitution is reluctant to acknowledge slavery by not using the term 'slave.'
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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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