But the receiver of an alleged fugitive from service owns him, and may proceed to control him, and beat him, and rob him, and starve him, on the very instant that the commissioner puts the certificate into his hands.
Mann condemns the immediate and violent control exercised over alleged fugitives from service.
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Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
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.
Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
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