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Other things being equal, a free people will thrive and prosper, in a mere worldly sense, more than a people divided into masters and slaves.
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Mann believes that a free society will naturally prosper more than one divided by slavery.
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The institution of slavery is against natural right.
Under such a practice with regard to indictments, coupled with such a practice in regard to bail, an accusation would be as fatal as crime itself, however innocent the accused might be.
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.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
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