And then, having made a waste where God had made a garden, slavery gathers up the relics of bankruptcy, and the baser relics still of virtue and all manly enterprise, and goes forth to renew, on a virgin soil, its dismal and forlorn history.
Mann describes the destructive legacy of slavery on society and virtue.
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The dearest and most precious of all human rights is the right of private judgment in matters of religion.
The institution of slavery is against natural right.
Once a day the hatches were opened, to receive food and to disgorge the dead.
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