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It seems to me quite as inconvenient for a free man to lose his liberty, as for a slaveholder to lose his slave.
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Mann highlights the equal inconvenience of losing liberty for both free individuals and slaveholders.
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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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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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