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Did they expect, then, that when an alleged slave, or a known freeman, should be seized, that he should be hurried into bondage without any right to this ancient muniment of the subject’s liberties?
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Mann emphasizes the importance of legal rights in the context of slavery and the treatment of individuals seized as alleged slaves.
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Out of universal education come genius, skill, and enterprise, and the desire of bettering one’s condition.
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.
Yet, by denying education to the slave, you destroy not merely the right, but the power, of personal examination in regard to all that most nearly concerns the soul’s interests.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
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