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Will you make the act of escape a capital offence in a slave, and destroy the victim you cannot restrain?
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Mann questions the morality of punishing a slave for attempting to escape, highlighting the inhumanity of slavery.
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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?
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Packed and stowed like merchandise between unventilated decks, so close that the tempest without could not ruffle the pestilential air within, the voyage was begun.
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