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For this they wandered abroad upon the ocean, deeming its ingulfing surges to be more tolerable than a tyrant’s power.
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Mann highlights the lengths to which individuals went to escape tyranny, valuing freedom over comfort.
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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.
The aged and the infant she left for the vultures; but the strong men and the strong women she drove, scourged and bleeding, to the shore.
Out of universal education come genius, skill, and enterprise, and the desire of bettering one’s condition.
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