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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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?
The north comes to the south, cuts their timber, carries it home, manufactures it, and then brings it back, wrought into a hundred different forms, to be sold to those who would see it rot before their eyes.
Here the two systems have worked side by side for ages, under such equal circumstances, both political and physical, and with such ample time and opportunity for each to work out its proper effects, that all must admit the experiment to be…
But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
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