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Slavery depends, not upon climate, but upon conscience.
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Mann asserts that the existence of slavery is rooted in moral conscience rather than environmental factors.
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Packed and stowed like merchandise between unventilated decks, so close that the tempest without could not ruffle the pestilential air within, the voyage was begun.
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