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Suppose Maryland had ceded her share of the District to Massachusetts, would not every slave in it have been instantaneously free by the constitution of Massachusetts?
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Mann posits that if Maryland ceded its part of the District to Massachusetts, all slaves would be free under Massachusetts law.
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