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What power is granted to Congress, for the exercise of which the establishment of slavery in this District is a necessary means or a preliminary?
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Mann questions the constitutional justification for Congress to establish slavery in the District, seeking clarity on its powers.
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So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
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