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The region is continental over which the law unconstitutionally extends, and this corresponds with the vast inhumanity of the principle which so extends it.
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Mann critiques the expansive reach of laws that support slavery, highlighting their moral implications.
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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.
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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Once a day the hatches were opened, to receive food and to disgorge the dead.
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