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The slave’s time is too valuable to be lost in a prison, but the white man’s is not; the white man’s skin is too sacred to be flayed or branded, but the slave’s is not.
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Mann critiques the unequal treatment of slaves and white men in the justice system.
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Answer: She is in a country in which slavery is established by law.
Out of universal education come genius, skill, and enterprise, and the desire of bettering one’s condition.
This is the reciprocity of slave law.--to be forever liable to be proved guilty, but never able to prove himself innocent; to be subject to all punishments, but, through his own oath, to no protection.
Old Virginia was the first to sow this land of ours with slavery; she is also the first to reap the full harvest of destruction.
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