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While subjected to the law of force, he is shut out from the law of right.
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Mann articulates the contradiction of enslaved individuals living under force while being excluded from the law's protections.
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So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
They cannot do otherwise with laborers who work by compulsion, for the benefit only of their masters, and whose sole interest in the matter is to do as little and to consume as much as possible.
Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
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.
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