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Do we ruthlessly tear asunder the sacred ties of affection by which God has bound the parent to the child and the child to the parent?
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Mann highlights the emotional and relational damage caused by the institution of slavery.
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It is only in the land of slaves that they are blotted out and annihilated.
This is the reciprocity of slave law.--to be forever liable to be proved guilty, but never able to prove himself innocent; to be subject to all punishments, but, through his own oath, to no protection.
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.
Has the fact never yet come to the knowledge of the magistrates of the District of Columbia, that the constitution of the United States declares that “excessive bail shall not be required”?
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