The moment they put their feet on board of a British man-of-war, not lying within the waters of East Florida, (where undoubtedly the laws of that country would prevail,) those persons who had before been slaves were free....
Mann argues that individuals become free upon boarding a British warship, emphasizing the legal implications of their location.
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I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.
Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.
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