Because we can carry our property there, when property means inanimate substances, you have only to call a human being property;--you have only to call a creature, formed in the image of God, property, and then he can be smuggled in under the new name.
Mann argues against the dehumanization of individuals by illustrating how the term 'property' can be misapplied to people.
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