He will be sent to some interior region, perhaps fifty miles from any court, or the residence of any counsel, where he may never have an opportunity to speak to a white man unless it be to a taskmaster, who is paid to guard and to silence him.
Mann describes the isolation and hopelessness faced by kidnapped individuals who are removed far from legal recourse and support.
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Cast it off, West Virginians, whilst yet you have the power; for if you let it descend unbroken to your children, it will have grown to a mountain of misery upon their heads.
Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
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.
Can any man give a reason why Norfolk should not have grown like New York, other than the difference in the institutions of the people?
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