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But if he desires to make use of him to deceive and cajole and defraud, then he wishes to make him cunning and tricky and false.
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Mann contrasts the qualities a master desires based on whether he wants to exploit or trust his slave, revealing the ethical dilemmas of slavery.
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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.
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.
Has the fact never yet come to the knowledge of the magistrates of the District of Columbia, that the constitution of the United States declares that “excessive bail shall not be required”?
The institution of slavery is against natural right.
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