Can Congress pass a bill of attainder corrupting the blood of an inhabitant of this District, or repeal or suspend at any time his right to a writ of habeas corpus, or establish a religion here, or interdict the free exercise thereof?
Mann challenges the legality of Congress passing laws that infringe on individual rights in D.C.
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So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
Cast it off, West Virginians, whilst yet you have the power; for if you let it descend unbroken to your children, it will have grown to a mountain of misery upon their heads.
Once a day the hatches were opened, to receive food and to disgorge the dead.
The wickedest white man, in a company of slaves, bears a charmed life.
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