These countless millions are to be our kindred; many of them, perhaps, our own descendants; at any rate, our brethren of the human family; for has not God “made of one blood all nations of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth”?
Mann speaks to the interconnectedness of humanity and the shared lineage of all people.
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Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
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.
Of all the states in this Union, not one has on the whole such various and abundant resources for manufacturing as our own Virginia, both East and West.
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