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One liberty the slave always has,--whenever he deems it expedient, he may re-clothe himself in the rights which God and nature gave him, and which, though they may be ravished from him, can never be destroyed.
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Mann asserts that enslaved individuals retain an inherent right to reclaim their freedom, despite the oppression they face.
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The man of independent circumstances has this liberty; and no man’s circumstances, not even the poorest and the humblest, should be so dependent as to take it away.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
The kidnapper, Alberti, now lies in a Pennsylvania prison for carrying away a mother and her child; but the mother and the child are now groaning under the lash of a southern taskmaster.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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