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Will you mutilate them, or scourge them till within a minute of death?
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Mann condemns the brutal punishments inflicted on enslaved individuals as a means of control.
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Her black children have sucked her so dry, that now, for a long time past, she has not milk enough for her offspring, either black or white.
The general system of slaveholding farmers and planters, in all times and places, has been, and now is, and ever will be, to cultivate much land, badly, for present gain,--in short, to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
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