Every man, therefore, in any one of the free states of this Union, has a right to stand upon this legal presumption, and to claim all the privileges and immunities that grow out of it until his presumed freedom is wrested from him by legal proof.
Mann emphasizes the legal rights of individuals in free states to claim their freedom until proven otherwise.
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